Sich wandeln? Wenn’s die Berge tun

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Alter? When the hills do

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER ITA

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Alter? When the hills do.
Falter? When the sun
Question if his glory
Be the perfect one.

Surfeit? When the daffodil
Doth of the dew:
Even as herself, O friend!
I will of you!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Bacon

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Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "O friend", c1940-44, published 1944 [ medium voice and piano ], from Songs from Emily Dickinson [sung text checked 1 time]
by Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987), "When the hills do", op. 77 no. 3 (1957), published 1958 [ voice, piano ], from Emily Dickinson Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 34

Sich wandeln? Wenn’s die Berge tun

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

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Sich wandeln? Wenn’s die Berge tun.
Schwanken? Wenn die Sonne
fragt, ob ihre Pracht
vollkommen sei -

Übersatt? Wie die Narzisse
ist vom Tau -
so wie sie, mein Freund,
wünsch’ ich’s von dir!

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems of Emily Dickinson, first published 1890
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This text was added to the website: 2019-01-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 32