So scheu, als ich sie wahrnahm

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

So bashful when I spied her

Language: English

Our translations: GER

So bashful when I spied her,
So pretty, so ashamed!
So hidden in her leaflets,
Lest anybody find;

So breathless till I passed her,
So helpless when I turned
And bore her, struggling, blushing,
Her simple haunts beyond!

For whom I robbed the dingle,
For whom betrayed the dell,
Many will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!

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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 not yet checked 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), "So bashful", c1940-44, published 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Five Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Arthur Weld , "Bashfulness" [ voice and piano ], from Seven Songs [sung text not yet checked]

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GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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So scheu, als ich sie wahrnahm

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

So scheu, als ich sie wahrnahm,
so schamvoll und so lind!
Im Blattwerk so verborgen,
damit sie niemand find’.

Im Schock, als ich vorbeiging,
hilflos, als ich kehrt’ um,
sie wegtrug, zappelnd, schamrot,
aus ihrem Lebensraum!

Für wen ich stahl im Waldtal,
für wen ich es verriet,
wohl fragt man mich dies einmal -,
doch ich teil’s niemand mit.

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Translation of title "So bashful" = "So scheu"

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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: 2020-01-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 59