Silent walk | The evening grows gray, autumn fires burn

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Stiller Gang

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE IRI

Der Abend graut, Herbstfeuer brennen.
Über den Stoppeln geht der Rauch entzwei.
Kaum ist mein Weg noch zu erkennen.
Bald kommt die Nacht; ich muß mich trennen.
Ein Käfer surrt an meinem Ohr vorbei.
Vorbei.

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Stiller Gang", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Conrad (Eduard Reinhold) Ansorge (1862 - 1930), "Stiller Gang", op. 10 (Acht Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Stiller Gang", op. 9 no. 7 (1925), from Frage, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Stiller Gang", op. 31 (Vier Lieder von Carl Busse und Richard Dehmel) no. 4, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fürstner [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Stiller Gang", 1904 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Caminada silenciosa", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Stille wandeling", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Silent walk", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Chemin silencieux", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Siúlóid Chiúin", copyright © 2016, (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: 6
Word count: 35

Silent walk

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The evening grows gray, autumn fires burn.
Over the stubble, smoke floats in two columns.
My path is hardly recognizable.
Soon night will come; I must leave.
A beetle flits murmuring past my ear.
Past.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Stiller Gang", appears in Weib und Welt
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 35