Fog on the wadden sea | Silent fogs are creeping over sea and land

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by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Nebel am Wattenmeer

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG ENG FRE ITA

Nebel, stiller Nebel über Meer und Land.
Totenstill die Watten, totenstill der Strand.
Trauer, leise Trauer deckt die Erde zu.
Seele, liebe Seele, schweig und träum auch du.

Text Authorship:

by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "Nebel am Wattenmeer", appears in Melancholie [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 Robert Hanf (1894 - 1944), "Nebel am Wattenmeer" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Nebel am Wattenmeer", op. 9 no. 5 (1932) [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Fog on the wadden sea", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Fog on the wadden sea", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Brouillard à marée basse", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Nebbia sulla bassa costa", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2004-11-24
Line count: 4
Word count: 28

Fog on the wadden sea

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Silent fogs are creeping over sea and land.
Dead still lie the tidelands, dead still lies the strand.
Mourning, silent mourning shrouds the dreaming ground.
Hush, my soul - tread softly in the dreaming round.

Text Authorship:

Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2010 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "Nebel am Wattenmeer", appears in Melancholie
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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-09
Line count: 4
Word count: 34