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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

So seh ich, Jesus, deine Füße wieder
Language: German (Deutsch) 
So seh ich, Jesus, deine Füße wieder,
die damals eines Jünglings Füße waren,
da ich sie bang entkleidete und wusch;
wie standen sie verwirrt in meinen Haaren
und wie ein weißes Wild im Dornenbusch.

So seh ich deine niegeliebten Glieder
zum erstenmal in dieser Liebesnacht.
Wir legten uns noch nie zusammen nieder,
und nun wird nur bewundert und gewacht.

Doch, siehe, deine Hände sind zerrissen –:
Geliebter, nicht von mir, von meinen Bissen.
Dein Herz steht offen und man kann hinein:
das hätte dürfen nur mein Eingang sein.

Nun bist du müde, und dein müder Mund
hat keine Lust zu meinem wehen Munde -.
O Jesus, Jesus, wann war unsre Stunde?
Wie gehn wir beide wunderlich zugrund.

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Neue Gedichte, Project Gutenberg, 2022


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Pietà", appears in Neue Gedichte [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 Eduard Bornschein (1883 - 1945), "Pietà", 1926 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Gesänge nach Gedichten von R. M. Rilke, no. 9, Mainz : Schott [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Daniel Glaus (b. 1957), "Pietà II", 1992 [ mixed chorus ], from De Angelis IV: Motetten und Gesänge zu Karfreitag, no. 2, Müller & Schade AG [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wilfried Hiller , "Pietà", 2009 - 2010, first performed 2010 [ mezzo-soprano, viola d'amore and harp ], from Du meine heilige Einsamkeit, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Casimir von Pászthory (1886 - 1966), "Pietà" [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder nach Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Triphon Dimitrov Silyanovski (1923 - 2005), "Pietà", 1953 [ soprano and piano ], from 5 песни за сопран и пиано (лява ръка), по стихове на Райнер Мария Рилке = Five Songs for Soprano and Piano (Left Hand) on Poetry by R.M. Rilke, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Konstantin Wladigeroff (b. 1978) and by Alexander Wladigeroff (b. 1978), "Pietà", 2020 [ children's chorus and chamber orchestra ], from Magie; Hommage an Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 12, an arrangement of a piece by Triphon Silyanovski [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-08-22
Line count: 17
Word count: 117

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