by Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846 - 1908)
Translation by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934)

Sommer i Gurre
Language: Danish (Dansk) 
Our translations:  FRE
Solen er til Hvile, den slukte sit Lys;
Dagen vil sove.
Engene damper, der gaar som et Gys
Gennem Gurrevangs Skove.
Der sitrer et Minde paa hvert et Blad,
Som bøjer sig, tynget af Duggens Bad;
I Bunterad,
Mens Dampene tættes og skilles ad,
Staa Enge og Minder og Skove.
Og det løfter sig, suget af Glansen fra oven,
Det svulmer som Voven;
Det sænker sig ned,
Og der fødes et Digt
Ved Skovsøens dæmrende Bred.

Confirmed with Drachmann, Holger, Samlede Petiske Skrifter - Folkeudgave - Fjerde bind, Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, Kjøbenhavn og Kristiania, 1907.


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  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "L'été à Gurre", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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Summer landscape
Language: English  after the Danish (Dansk) 
The sun is at rest; its rays are gone!
Day now reposes, 
the fields lie in haze,
and a faint breeze trembles o'er dusky woodlands.
On ev'ry leaflet sweet memories dwell and tarry there,
glist'ning like evening dew. 
And far away
in white floating vapours half hidden
lie meadows and forests and dreamland;
And rising towards the heaven aglow
and swaying like waves, 
the mists waft away,
and a poem is born 
in the dark'ning sea of trees.

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