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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Senke dich, du langsame Serale

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ITA

Senke dich, du langsame Serale,
das aus feierlichen Fernen fließt.
Ich empfange dich, ich bin die Schale,
die dich faßt und hält und nicht vergießt.

Stille dich und werde in mir klar,
weite, leise, aufgelöste Stunde.
Was gebildet ist auf meinem Grunde,
lass es sehn. Ich weiß nicht, was es war.

Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, Werke, kommentierte Ausgabe in vier Bänden, Band 1 Gedichte 1895 bis 1910, herausgegeben von Manfred Engel und Ulrich Fülleborn, Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1996, page 107.

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Senke dich, du langsame Serale", written 1898, appears in Frühe Gedichte, in Mir zur Feier [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 Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Senke dich, du langsame Serale", op. 20, Heft 1 (Rilke Liederzyklus I) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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

ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Discendi su di me, canto delle sere", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Discendi su di me, canto delle sere

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the German (Deutsch)

Discendi su di me, canto delle sere
Che lento da maestose lontananze scorri.
Sarò ad accoglierti, sono come un bicchiere
che ti prende e trattiene, senza che trabocchi.
 
Placati; fatti, dentro di me, più chiaro
Tu vasto, delicato, etereo istante.
Ciò che si configura in fondo alla mia mente
Rivela. Che cosa fosse lo ignoro.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Senke dich, du langsame Serale", written 1898, appears in Frühe Gedichte, in Mir zur Feier
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 55