Göttliche Wirkmächte | Zeit tröpfelt im Vergehn

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by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

The moods

Language: English

Available translation(s): GER

Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods,
Has fallen away?

First published in Bookman, August 1893

Authorship:

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The moods" [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 Raymond Warren (b. 1928), "The moods", 1959 [ SSATB chorus a cappella ], from Irish Madrigals [sung text not yet checked]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Göttliche Wirkmächte", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-20
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Word count: 32

Göttliche Wirkmächte

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Zeit tröpfelt im Vergehn
der Kerze gleich, die brennt,
auch Berge, Wälder, Haine
in gleicher Weise gehn.
Was, wenn aus dem Regiment
feuer-gebor’ner Mächte eine
nicht mehr bleibt bestehn?

Authorship:

Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2021 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "The moods"

This text was added to the website: 2021-04-12
Line count: 7
Word count: 29