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by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Verwelkte Blume

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Verwelkte Blume 
Menschenkind, 
Man senkt gelind 
Dich in die Erde hinunter, 
Dann wird ob Dir 
Der Rasen grün 
Und Blumen blühn, 
Und Du blühst mitten darunter.

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Note: this is Rückert's last poem, from January, 1866, a few days before his death.

Confirmed with Poetisches Tagebuch, von Friedrich Rückert. Aus seinem Nachlasse, Frankfurt: Sauerländer, 1888, page 550.

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Poetisches Tagebuch [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 Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951), "Auf das letzte Blatt meiner Lieder", op. 67 no. 20, published 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wolfgang Michael Rihm (1952 - 2024), "Verwelkte Blume ", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier späte Gedichte von Friedrich Rückert, no. 4, Wien (Vienna), Universal Editions [sung text not yet checked]
by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Verwelkte Blume, Menschenkind" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 26

Wilted flower

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Wilted flower, 
Human being,
Gently they lower
You into the earth,
Then above you
The grass shall turn green
And flowers shall bloom,
And you shall bloom in the midst of them.

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Translations of title(s):
"Auf das letzte Blatt meiner Lieder" = "On the last page of my poems"
"Verwelkte Blume " = "Wilted flower"
"Verwelkte Blume, Menschenkind" = "Wilted flower, human being"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Poetisches Tagebuch
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This text was added to the website: 2020-06-12
Line count: 8
Word count: 32