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[Möchten viele Seelen]1 dies verstehen, Möchten viele Liebende es lernen: So im eigenen Dufte sich berauschen, So verliebt dem Mörder Wind zu lauschen, So in rosiges Blätterspiel verwehen, Lächelnd sich vom Liebesmahl entfernen, So den Abschied als ein Fest begehen, So gelöst dem Leiblichen entsinken Und wie einen Kuß den Tod zu trinken.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 307.
1 Schwarz-Schillig: "Mögen viele"Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Verwelkende Rosen", written 1927 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Welkende Rosen", op. 38 no. 9, published 1964 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolf Krauss (b. 1907), "Möchten viele Seelen dies verstehen", <<1957 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Mader (b. 1930), "Welkende Rosen", 1956 [ voice and piano ], from Vom Baum des Lebens - Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Verwelkende Rosen ", op. 42a no. 18 (1977) [ medium voice and piano ], from Stufen - Hesse-Lieder 1977 für mittlere Singstimme, no. 18 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Verwelkende Rosen", op. 44 (Zehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse) no. 3 (1929), published 1931 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904 - 1985), "Verwelkende Rosen", published 1950 [ ATB chorus a cappella ], from Vom Baum des Lebens - Fünf Gedichte von Hermann Hesse für Chor a cappella, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Heinz Taubert (1912 - 1990), "Welkende Rosen", 1957, published 1962 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vom Baum des Lebens - Vier Lieder für mittlere Singstimme nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 54
Que moltes ànimes puguin entendre això, que molts amants puguin aprendre-ho: embriagar-se en el seu propi perfum, tan enamorats, escoltar el vent assassí, espargir-se en el falaguer joc del fullam, somrient allunyar-se del festí de l’amor, celebrar el comiat com una festa, deslliurats, defugir el que és corpori i beure la mort com un bes.
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Translations of titles:
"Möchten viele Seelen dies verstehen" = "Que moltes ànimes puguin entendre això"
"Verwelkende Rosen" = "Roses marcides"
"Welkende Rosen" = "Roses marcides"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2025 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Verwelkende Rosen", written 1927
This text was added to the website: 2025-06-12
Line count: 9
Word count: 55