Conception | You, soft night, O come and embrace me

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by Paul Wertheimer (1874 - 1937)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Empfängnis

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Du weiche Nacht, o komm mich zu umfangen,
Mein Sehnen rundest du und reifst den Wein.
Ein seliges, ein stummes Heiland-Bangen
Schwellt meine Seele, zur Empfängnis rein.

Und wie ich sehnend meine Arme breite,
Da ringt sich von des Himmels Früchten los
Ein heller Keim und fällt aus Gottes Weite
In meiner Seele betend bangen Schoß.

Confirmed with Paul Wertheimer,Gedichte, Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Heinrich Meyer, 1896, page 25

Text Authorship:

by Paul Wertheimer (1874 - 1937), "Empfängnis", appears in Ausfahrt, in Lieder der Nacht, no. 2 [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 Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Empfängnis", op. 2 (Dreizehn Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier), Heft 2 no. 6 (1894-6), published 1897 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Conception", copyright ©

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Conception

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

You, soft night, O come and embrace me.
You round out my yearning and mature the wine.
A blissful, mute awe for the Redeemer
swells my soul, pure and ready for conception.

And as I open my arms with longing,
there fights free from heaven's fruit
a bright seed, and it falls from God's firmament
into the womb of my soul, so devout and full of awe.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Paul Wertheimer (1874 - 1937), "Empfängnis", appears in Ausfahrt, in Lieder der Nacht, no. 2
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 67