Late summer | Brightest, most blinding summer day

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by Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865 - 1910)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Spätsommer

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Hellster, grellster Sommertag,
Sonnenglutdurchschwelte Luft,
Schwüler, schwerer Blumenduft,
Müd verhaltener Finkenschlag

Satte Reife weit und breit,
Leis schon übergilbt der Wald;
Bunt in Herbst verraschelt bald
Sommertraumstrosteinsamkeit.

Confirmed with Otto Julius Bierbaum, Der neubestellte Irrgarten der Liebe, um etliche Gaenge und Lauben vermehrt verliebte, launenhafte, moralische, und andere Lieder, Gedichte u. Sprueche aus den Jahren 1885 bis 1905, Insel-Verlag, 1910

Text Authorship:

by Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865 - 1910), "Spätsommer" [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 Maria Bach (1896 - 1978), "Hellster, grellster Sommertag", 1925 [ soprano and piano ], Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Late summer", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Late summer

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Brightest, most blinding summer day,
Air smouldering with the blaze of the sun,
Humid, heavy scent of flowers,
Weary, muted songs of the finches.

Replete ripeness far and wide,
The forest already gently yellowed;
Colourfully in autumn soon shall be soughed away
The solitude of summer-dream comfort.

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