Ich liebe Frauen, die vor tausend Jahren Geliebt von Dichtern und besungen waren. Ich liebe Städte, deren leere Mauern Königsgeschlechter alter Zeit betrauern. Ich liebe Städte, die erstehen werden, Wenn niemand mehr von heute lebt auf Erden. Ich liebe Frauen -- schlanke, wunderbare, Die ungeboren ruhn im Schoß der Jahre. Sie werden einst mit ihrer sternebleichen Schönheit der Schönheit meiner Träume gleichen.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 71.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Ich liebe Frauen --", written 1901, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in An die Schönheit, first published 1919 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Joachim Kötschau (1905 - 1973), "Ich liebe Frauen, die vor tausend Jahren", op. 15 (Fünf Lieder für Bariton nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse) no. 4 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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