Silent parting | For both of them, parting was so painful

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by Anna Klie (1858 - 1913)

Translation © by Peter Palmer

Stummer Abschied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Es tat den Beiden so weh das Scheiden;
Sie wollten klagen, sich viel noch sagen,
Und doch fand keines ein einzig Wort.
So ging eines vom andern fort.

Text Authorship:

by Anna Klie (1858 - 1913), "Stummer Abschied" [author's text not yet checked 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 Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Stummer Abschied", op. 65 (Zehn Lieder) no. 8 (1918), published 1918 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Stummer Abschied", WoO. 18 (1905) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Peter Palmer) , "Silent parting", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 28

Silent parting

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

For both of them, parting was so painful;
They wanted to lament, tell each other far more.
But neither of them could say anything at all.
That's how the one went away from the other.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna Klie (1858 - 1913), "Stummer Abschied"
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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 35