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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Weißt du noch: fallende Sterne, die
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Weißt du noch: fallende Sterne, die
quer wie Pferde durch die Himmel sprangen
über plötzlich hingehaltne Stangen
unsrer Wünsche-- hatten wir so viele?--
denn es sprangen Sterne, ungezählt;
fast ein jeder Aufblick war vermählt
mit dem raschen Wagnis ihrer Spiele,
und das Herz fühlte empfand sich als ein Ganzes
unter diesen Trümmern ihres Glanzes
und war heil, als überstünd es sie!

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Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title [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 Julia Schwartz (b. 1963), "Weisst du noch?", 1994-95 [ voice and piano ], from Die Nacht, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Edward Snow , copyright © ; composed by Kevin Padworski.
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  • Also set in English, a translation by Albert Ernest Flemming , "Falling stars", copyright © ; composed by Richard Charlton.
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