sonnet | first stanza first line

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by Gerhard Rühm

Translation © by Grant Hicks

sonnett

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

erste strophe erste zeile
erste strophe zweite zeile
erste strophe dritte zeile
erste strophe vierte zeile

zweite strophe erste zeile
zweite strophe zweite zeile
zweite strophe dritte zeile
zweite strophe vierte zeile

dritte strophe erste zeile
dritte strophe zweite zeile
dritte strophe dritte zeile

vierte strophe erste zeile
vierte strophe zweite zeile
vierte strophe dritte zeile

Text Authorship:

by Gerhard Rühm [author's text not yet checked 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "sonnett", 1995 [medium voice and piano], from Unsinn Poesie, no. 2 [ sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-06-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 56

sonnet

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

first stanza first line
first stanza second line 
first stanza third line 
first stanza fourth line 

second stanza first line 
second stanza second line
second stanza third line 
second stanza fourth line 

third stanza first line 
third stanza second line 
third stanza third line 

fourth stanza first line 
fourth stanza second line 
fourth stanza third line

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Gerhard Rühm
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This text was added to the website: 2025-07-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 56