Du heilig, glühend Abendroth! Der Himmel will in Glanz zerrinnen, So scheiden Märtyrer von hinnen Holdlächelnd in dem Liebestod. Des Aufgangs Berge still und grau, Am Grab des Tags die hellen Gluten, Der Schwan auf purpurrothen Fluten, Und jeder Halm im Silberthau! O Sonne, Gottesstrahl, du bist Nie herrlicher, als im Entfliehen, Du willst uns gern hinüber ziehen, Wo deines Glanzes Urquell ist.
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View text with footnotesConfirmed with Poetische Werke von Aloys Schreiber. Erster Band. Tübingen, bei Heinrich Laupp. 1817, page 67; with Aloys Schreiber's Gedichte. Erster Theil. Neueste Auflage. Wien 1817. Bey B. Ph. Bauer, pages 68-69; and with Solothurnisches Wochenblatt für 1815. Herausgegeben von Freunden der vaterländischen Geschichte. Solothurn bey Ludwig Vogelsang, obrigkeitlichem Buchdrucker, Nro. 45. Samstag, den 11 November 1815, page 592.
Authorship
- by Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1761 - 1841), "Das Abendroth" [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Das Abendrot", op. posth. 173 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, D 627 (1818), published 1867 [ bass, piano ], C. A. Spina, VN 19179, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Het avondrood", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The glow of sunset", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Coucher de soleil", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Rosso di sera", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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