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Nun ist der Tag zu Ende. Leg mir die lieben Hände Auf Stirn und Haar Und singe mir! Und wende Von mir der Träume laute Schar! Ich fürcht mich vor den langen, Verschwiegenen, träumebangen Stunden der Nacht, Wenn du bist schlafen gangen Und nur mein weher Herzschlag wacht. Dann geht auf dunklen Wegen Mein Herz mit harten Schlägen Der bangen Nacht, Der bangen Nacht entgegen, Die meine Lieder stille macht. Dann kommt mit leisen Schritten Und zagen Kinderbitten Mein Glück zu mir, Und sieht, was ich gelitten, Und sagt: mein Freund, was ward aus dir? Dann kommen die versäumten Tage und die verschäumten Becher zu mir, Und alle ungeträumten Glücksträume schlank und mädchenzier. Leg mir die lieben Hände Auf Stirn und Haar, und wende Die Holden ab. Mein Tag ist nun zu Ende, Ich weiß, was ich verloren hab!
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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, pages 15-16.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1898, appears in Krankheit (Herbst 1898), no. 2 [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 Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Nun ist der Tag zu Ende", op. 7 no. 7 [ high voice and piano ], from Zehn romantische Lieder für mittlere Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Now the day is at an end", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-06-03
Line count: 30
Word count: 139
Ara el dia s’ha acabat. Posa les teves estimades mans al meu front i als meus cabells i canta per a mi! I allunya de mi la sorollosa munió dels somnis! Tinc por de les hores llargues, silents, plenes de somnis neguitosos de la nit quan tu has anat a dormir i només vetlla el penós batec del meu cor. Llavors, per obscurs camins, el meu cor, amb forts batecs, va vers la nit angoixant, la nit angoixant, que fa emmudir els meus cants. Llavors, amb passos silents i vacil·lants precs d’infant, m’arriba la benaurança, i veu el que he sofert i diu: amic meu, què s’ha esdevingut de tu? Llavors em vénen els dies desaprofitats i les copes esbravades, i tots els somnis de felicitat no somiats, esvelts i gràcils, com una donzella. Posa les teves estimades mans al meu front i als meus cabells i allunya els benvolents. El meu dia s’ha acabat i sé, el que he perdut!
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Translations of titles:
"Nun ist der Tag zu Ende" = "Ara el dia s’ha acabat"
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2025 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1898, appears in Krankheit (Herbst 1898), no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2025-10-21
Line count: 30
Word count: 161