by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
You, darkness, who birthed me
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
You, darkness, who birthed me
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Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1899, appears in Das Stundenbuch, in 1. Das Buch vom mönchischen Leben , no. 11, first published 1905
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jodi Goble (b. 1974), "You, darkness, who birthed me" [ soprano and piano ], from Circle of Light, no. 3
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Robert Bly (b. 1926) , "You darkness, that I come from", appears in Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, first published 1981, copyright © by Harper and Row, (re)printed on this website with kind permission ; composed by Mark Abel, Robert Benford Lepley.
- Also set in English, a translation by Anita Barrows , copyright © and by Joanna Macy , copyright © ; composed by Lachlan Skipworth.
- Also set in English, a translation by Annette LeSiege (1947 - 2012) , copyright © ; composed by Annette LeSiege.
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