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by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Translation © by Bertram Kottmann
Remember me when I am gone away
Language: English
Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Remember", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862 [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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Remember me", published 1952 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from Four Christina Rossetti Settings [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "Remember", published 1930 [ high voice, violin obbligato, orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Hageman (1881 - 1966), "Into the silent land", published 1944 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Remember", op. 114 (Three Sonnets for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 2 (1935) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elaine Hugh-Jones (b. 1927), "Remember" [ voice and piano ], from The Silent Land: Two Poems by Christina Rossetti, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Hugill , "Remember" [ mezzo-soprano, viola, piano ], from Quickening, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "Remember me when I am gone away", alternate title: "Sonnetina #7", op. 66 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Kurt List (b. 1913), "Remember", <<1956, first performed 1955 [ chorus ], madrigal [sung text not yet checked]
- by Landon Ronald, Sir (1873 - 1938), "Remember", published 1915 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daniel Ruyneman (1886 - 1963), "Remember", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from Seven melodies, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Myron Silberstein (b. 1975), "Remember", 2016 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Halsey Stevens (1908 - 1989), "Sonnet", 1947 [ low voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Halsey Stevens (1908 - 1989), "Remember me", published 1973 [ TTB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "Remember me when I am gone away", published <<1940 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Owen Underhill (b. 1954), "Remember", 2007 [ mezzo-soprano and flute ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolph T. Werther (1896 - 1986), "Remember me", 1945-70 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Willis, Dr. (b. 1929), "Remember", published 1954 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Gedenke mein", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Denk manchmal mein –", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Ricordati di me quando andrò via lontano", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2006-02-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 111
Gedenke mein
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Gedenke mein, wenn ich gegangen bin, gegangen bin ins ferne stille Land; wenn du nicht mehr mir halten kannst die Hand, noch ich mehr zaud're, bleib' ich, fahr' ich hin. Gedenke mein, nie mehr kannst fürderhin du täglich mir das Morgen, fest geplant, auftun: gedenke mein; und hab' erkannt, dass dann dein Sorgen, Bitten ohne Sinn. Doch solltest länger du vergessen mich und später dich erinnern, traure nicht: denn fällt trotz Dunkel und Verfall ein Licht auf einen Gran Gedanken, die einst mein, wärst besser heiter du, vergäßest mich als im Gedenken meiner traurig sein.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2006 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Remember", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862
This text was added to the website: 2006-03-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 95