Es singt ein Schnitter auf der Rast, Im Dufte schwelgt der reife Klee -- O du, daß du das alte Weh Mir wieder wachgesungen hast! Volkslieder, Kinderlieder gehn Leistönig auf im Abendwind, Und wieder schmerzen alle Wehn, Die doch vernarbt, vergessen sind. Spätabendwolken segeln zier, Die Erde atmet warm und weit . . . Was willst du heute noch von mir, Verlorene Jugendzeit?
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View text with footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 131.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Sommerabend", subtitle: "(Sommer 1903)", written 1903, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Von Wanderungen, first published 1919 [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 Ernst Albert Broechin (1894 - 1965), "Sommerabend", published 1961 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Förster (1890 - 1952), "Sommerabend", 1948 [ high voice and piano ], from Ernster Wanderer. Neun Gesänge für hohe Singstimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Jürgens , "Sommerabend" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Knayer (1876 - 1932), "Sommerabend" [ high voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder von Hermann Hesse für hohe Stimme, no. 1, unpublished [sung text checked 2 times]
- by Karl Müller , "Sommerabend ", 1929 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by F. H. Plank , "Es singt ein Schnitter auf der Rast " [ voice and lute ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , subtitle: "(Summer 1903)", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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