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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Anita Barrows and by Joanna Macy

Ich will ihn preisen. Wie vor einem...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ich will ihn preisen. Wie vor einem Heere
die Hörner gehen, will ich gehn und schrein.
Mein Blut soll lauter rauschen denn die Meere,
mein Wort soll süß sein, dass man sein begehre,
und doch nicht irre machen wie der Wein.

Und in den Frühlingsnächten, wenn nicht viele
geblieben sind um meine Lagerstatt,
dann will ich blühn in meinem Saitenspiele
so leise wie die nördlichen Aprile,
die spät und ängstlich sind um jedes Blatt.

Denn meine Stimme wuchs nach zweien Seiten
und ist ein Duften worden und ein Schrein:
die eine will den Fernen vorbereiten,
die andere muss meiner Einsamkeiten
Gesicht und Seligkeit und Engel sein. 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Ich will ihn preisen", appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 3. Das Buch von der Armut und dem Tode, no. 11 [author's text not yet checked 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 Josef Schelb (1894 - 1977), "Ich will ihn preisen", from 3 Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Carl Ueter (1900 - 1985), "Ich will ihn preisen. Wie vor einem Heere", op. 36, Heft 2 no. 4 (1934) [ alto, violin and piano ], from cantata Liebe zu Gott, no. 4, Tobias Broeker 2015 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation by Anita Barrows , copyright © and by Joanna Macy , copyright © ; composed by Brad Mehldau.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-06
Line count: 15
Word count: 106

No one lives his life
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
No one lives his life
 [ ... ]

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anita Barrows , copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
  • by Joanna Macy , copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Ich will ihn preisen", appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 3. Das Buch von der Armut und dem Tode, no. 11
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Brad Mehldau (b. 1970), "No one lives his life", first performed 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Songs from Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

This text was added to the website: 2023-08-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 65

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