by
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Ich will nicht länger in dem Dunkel...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: CAT ENG
Ich will nicht länger in dem Dunkel tasten,
Das meinen Fragen keine Antwort hat;
Ich will mich endlich still von dieser Statt
Des Grauens trennen und auch einmal rasten.
Wie viele Tage ging ich ein und aus
Und suchte heim und fand nur wirre Gänge,
Und suchte Licht und fand nur finstre Enge,
Ein eingesperrtes Kind im dunklen Haus.
Mir ist, ich sähe einen fernen Schein
Des Lichtes durch die Finsternis mir tagen.
Das Grauen weicht, der Boden will mich tragen
Dem fernen Licht entgegen und hinein.
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Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Victor Fenigstein (b. 1924), "Zeilen aus "Entschluss"", 1968 [ medium voice and orchestra ], from Aus deiner Jugend, no. 7, Edition Kunzelmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Haas (1879 - 1960), "Entschluß", op. 65 no. 6, published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Unterwegs, no. 6 [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
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2009-05-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 87
I no longer wish to feel my way...
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
I no longer wish to feel my way tentatively in the dark,,
Which has no answer to my questions;
I want finally to break away from this place
Of horror and to rest for once as well.
How many days I passed in and out
And sought my way home and found only confusing corridors,
And sought light and found only darksome narrowness,
A child locked up in a dark house.
It seems to me that I see a distant shimmer
Of light dawning for me through the darkness.
The horror ebbs, the ground shall bear me
Toward the distant light and into it.
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Translations of title(s):
"Entschluss" = "Resolve"
"Entschluß" = "Resolve"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Entschluss", written 1906
This text was added to the website: 2018-05-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 104