Wild poppies | Do you not feel it, when I weep over you

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by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924 - 1942)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Spürst du nicht, wenn ich um dich weine

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Spürst du nicht, wenn ich um dich weine,
bist du wirklich so weit?
Und bist mir doch das Schönste, das Eine,
um das ich sie trage, die Einsamkeit.

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Confirmed with Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Blütenlese. Gedichte, Herausgegeben von Adolf Rauchwerger, Tel Aviv: Telaviv University [Press], 1979, page 109.

Text Authorship:

by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924 - 1942), no title, written 1941, appears in Blütenlese, in Der Blütenlese Zweiter Teil, in Wilder Mohn [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 Dorothea Hofmann (b. 1961), "Wilder Mohn", 2019, first performed 2021 [ voice and harp ], from „So weit wie ein Stern“. Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Selma Merbaum, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Wild poppies", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2024-06-09
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Wild poppies

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Do you not feel it, when I weep over you,
are you truly so far away?
And yet to me you are the most beautiful thing, the one thing
for which I bear it, the loneliness.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924 - 1942), no title, written 1941, appears in Blütenlese, in Der Blütenlese Zweiter Teil, in Wilder Mohn
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This text was added to the website: 2024-06-12
Line count: 4
Word count: 36