Yonder over the mountain

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Drüben überm Berge

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE

Drüben überm Berge
Streut sein Licht der fahle Mond,
Dort in ewiger Mondesnacht
Meine tote Jugend wohnt.

Drüben überm Berge
Bei dem Grab der Königin
Geht verhärmt im Geisterschritt
Meine tote Liebe hin.

Drüben überm Berge
Wo die kühlen Tempel sind,
Schluchzt vor meinen toten Göttern
Ein verirrt Gebet im Wind.

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Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Drüben", written 1897, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Drüben überm Berge streut sein Licht der fahle Mond", op. 98 no. 5 (1942), from Herbst, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Egon Kornauth (1891 - 1959), "Drüben", op. 22 (Lieder nach Hermann Hesse) no. 5, published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hildegard Quiel (1888 - 1971), "Drüben " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-03-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 51

Yonder over the mountain

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Yonder over the mountain
The wan moon strews its light,
There in eternal moonlit night
My dead youth lives.

Yonder over the mountain
By the grave of the queen,
Haggardly in ghostly pacing,
My dead love wanders.

Yonder over the mountain
Where the cold temples are,
Before my dead gods
A lost prayer sobs in the wind.

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Translations of title(s):
"Drüben überm Berge streut sein Licht der fahle Mond" = "Yonder over the mountain the wan moon strews its light"
"Drüben" = "Yonder"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Drüben", written 1897, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911
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This text was added to the website: 2018-03-31
Line count: 12
Word count: 57