Cornflowers | Cornflowers I call these figures

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by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Kornblumen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE FRE JPN

Kornblumen nenn ich die Gestalten,
die milden mit den blauen Augen,
die, anspruchslos in stillem Walten,
den Tau des Friedens, den sie saugen
aus ihren eigenen klaren Seelen,
mitteilen allem, dem sie nahen,
bewußtlos der Gefühlsjuwelen,
die sie von Himmelshand empfahn.
Dir wird so wohl in ihrer Nähe,
als gingst du durch ein Saatgefilde,
durch das der Hauch des Abends wehe,
voll frommen Friedens und voll Milde.

Text Authorship:

by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912) [author's text not yet checked 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 Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Kornblumen", op. 22 no. 1 (1888), published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Mädchenblumen, no. 1, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Blauets", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Korenbloemen", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Cornflowers", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Heide Wiesner) , "Bleuets", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , "Bleuets", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , "ヤグルマギクの花", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 67

Cornflowers

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Cornflowers I call these figures
that gently, with blue eyes,
preside quietly and modestly,
placidly drinking the dew of peace
from their own pure souls,
communicating with everything that is near,
unconscious of the precious sensitivity
that they have received from the hand of God.
You feel so good among them,
as if you were going through a field of crops
through which the breath of evening blew,
full of pious quietude and full of mildness.

Text Authorship:

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Word count: 76