Süße weicht Bitternis | Sommer und Rosen sind entschwunden

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by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Summer is gone with all its roses

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Summer is gone with all its roses,
  Its sun and perfumes and sweet flowers,
  Its warm air and refreshing showers:
    And even Autumn closes.

Yea, Autumn's chilly self is going,
  And winter comes which is yet colder;
  Each day the hoar-frost waxes bolder
    And the last buds cease blowing.

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Text Authorship:

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Bitter for sweet", 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 John Chorbajian (b. 1936), "Bitter for sweet", published 1970 [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912), "Summer is gone", published 1911 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Hugill , "Bitter for sweet" [ mezzo-soprano, viola, piano ], from Quickening, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Süße weicht Bitternis", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 49

Süße weicht Bitternis

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Sommer und Rosen sind entschwunden,
mit süßen, sonnentrunk'nen  Düften,
mit frischem Nass und warmen Lüften:
gar Herbstes letzte Stunden.

Selbst er empfindet Unbehagen,
wenn Winter naht, des Frostes Meister,
täglich erscheint der Rauhreif dreister,
und letzte Knospen zagen.

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Based on:

a text in English by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Bitter for sweet", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862
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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 38