Då icke du talar, vill jag fylla mitt hjärta med tystnad och härda ut. Jag vill hålla mig stilla och likt natten vänta med stjärnevaka och huvudet böjt djupt i tålamod. Morgonen skall säkert komma, mörkret skall avtaga, din röst skall strömma ned [... ...] och taga vingar i sången från vart och ett av mina fågelbon och dina melodier slå ut i blom från alla mina skogsdungar.
E. Kallstenius sets lines 1-10, 13-19
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Text Authorship:
- by Andrea Butenschön (1866 - 1948), first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 19, first published 1912
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 19 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Edvin Kallstenius (1881 - 1967), no title, op. 32 no. 3 (1944) [ baritone and orchestra ], from cantata Sångoffer, no. 3
Score: IMSLP [external link]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English [singable] (Edvin Kallstenius)
- GER German (Deutsch) (Edvin Kallstenius)
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Daphnis [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-07-28
Line count: 19
Word count: 66
As long as thou speakest not, I will fill all my heart with thy silence and will endure. I will bide and keep quiet like the night, still waiting with starry vigil and its head humbly bent low and patiently. Morning is surely coming, darkness is vanishing. Thy voice is pouring down [... ...] and will take pinions in chirpings from every one of all my birds-nests, and all thy dulcet melodies break forth in flow’rs in all my verdant forest-groves.
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From the Kallstenius score.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation by Edvin Kallstenius (1881 - 1967)
Based on:
- a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Andrea Butenschön (1866 - 1948), first published 1915
Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 19, first published 1912
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 19 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Daphnis [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2026-07-28
Line count: 19
Word count: 79