At the edge of the brook | At the edge of the brook

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by Stefan George (1868 - 1933)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

An baches ranft

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE IRI

An baches ranft
Die einzigen frühen
Die hasel blühen.
Ein vogel pfeift
In kühler au.
Ein leuchten streift
Erwärmt uns sanft
Und zuckt und bleicht.
Das feld ist brach ·
Der baum noch grau...
Blumen streut vielleicht
Der lenz uns nach.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Stefan George, Gesamt-Ausgabe der Werke, Band 6 / 7, Der siebente Ring, Berlin, 1931, page 158.

Text Authorship:

by Stefan George (1868 - 1933), no title, appears in Der siebente Ring, in Lieder, in Lieder I-VI, no. 3 [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 Theodor W. Adorno (1903 - 1969), "An baches ranft", 1921/1922 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder aus »Der siebente Ring« von Stefan George, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Maria Herz (1878 - 1950), "An Baches Ranft" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder, no. 2, from Fünf Lieder auf Worte von Stefan George (für Singstimme und großes Orchester), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wolfgang Michael Rihm (1952 - 2024), "Lied", op. 1 no. 9 (1969) [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Frühlingsahnung I", op. 98b no. 1 (2022) [ bass and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "An Baches Ranft", op. 3 (Fünf Lieder aus 'Der siebente Ring') no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Max Zehnder (1901 - 1972), "An baches ranft", 1929 [ soprano and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für Sopran und Klavier, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "At the edge of the brook", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au bord du ruisseau", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jakob Kellner

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 41

At the edge of the brook

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 At the edge of the brook,
 solitary and early,
 the hazel blooms.
 A bird is whistling
 in the cool meadow.
 A beam of light strokes
 and warms us gently
 and quivers and fades.
 The field is fallow,
 the tree yet grey...
 perhaps flowers will be strewn
 after us by Spring.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Stefan George (1868 - 1933), no title, appears in Der siebente Ring, in Lieder, in Lieder I-VI, no. 3
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 51