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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Auf See
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Doch hatte niemals tiefere Macht dein Blick,
als da du, Abschied fühlend, still am Ufer
standest, schwandest. Nur der Blick noch
blieb und bebte über [den Wassern]1.

Dunkel folgte der Schein den leuchtenden Furchen.
Und ich sah den [Schaum]2 der tiefen Flut,
sah dein weißes Kleid zerfließen:
du Seele — Seele — —

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Zemlinsky 

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Gesammelte Werke in drei Bänden. Zweiter Band, S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1913, page 44.

1 Zemlinsky: "dem Wasser"
2 Zemlinsky : "Schein"

Text Authorship:

  • by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Auf See", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Conrad (Eduard Reinhold) Ansorge (1862 - 1930), "Auf See", op. 17 no. 3, published 1902, from Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Richard Dehmel, no. 3, Berlin, Deneke [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Auf See", 1907, from Fünf lieder auf Texte von Richard Dehmel, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Karol Maciej Szymanowski.

  • Go to the text. [ view differences ] FRE

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-08-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 56

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