by
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Deinem Blick darf meiner nicht begegnen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Deinem Blick darf meiner nicht begegnen,
Meine Seele, die so viel gelitten,
Darf nicht deine reine Seele bitten:
Wolle die verlorene Schwester segnen!
Leise nur im allertiefsten Innern
Darf sie einst gewesener Schwesterzeiten,
Ferner Liebe, ferner Seligkeiten,
Schweigend und verzweifelnd sich erinnern.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 1 Jugendschriften, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001, page 343.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Set in a modified version by Reinhold Laquai, Immo Schneider, Bruno Straumann, Franz Xaver Zintl.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "My gaze must not encounter yours", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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My gaze must not encounter yours
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
My gaze must not encounter yours;
My soul that has suffered so much
May not ask your pure soul:
Bless the lost sister[-soul]!
Only quietly in the deepest depths of my being
May [my soul] think back to the past time of sisterhood,
To distant love, distant joys,
Silently and despairingly.
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