Autumn image | This is an autumn day like none I have seen before!

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by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Herbstbild

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Dieß ist ein Herbsttag, wie ich keinen sah!
  Die Luft ist still, als athmete man kaum,
Und dennoch fallen raschelnd, fern und nah,
  Die schönsten Früchte ab von jedem Baum. 

O stört sie nicht, die Feier der Natur!
  Dieß ist die Lese, die sie selber hält,
Denn heute lös't sich von den Zweigen nur,
  Was vor dem milden Strahl der Sonne fällt.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich Hebbel. Gesammt-Ausgabe stark vermehrt und verbessert, Stuttgart und Augsburg, J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1857, page 168.

Text Authorship:

by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Herbstbild", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte [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 Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Herbstbild", op. 21 no. 1 (1907) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Max von Schillings (1868 - 1933), "Herbstbild", published <<1905 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, C. F. Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
by Felix Wolfes (1892 - 1971), "Herbstbild", 1960 [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Autumn image", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Image d'automne", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 62

Autumn image

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

This is an autumn day like none I have seen before!
The air is motionless, as if one were hardly breathing,
and nevertheless, far and near, with a rustle,
the fairest fruits are falling from every tree.

O do not interfere with this ceremony of Nature!
This is the harvest that she gathers herself;
for today the only things that are coming off the branches
are those that are loosened by the gentle touch of sunbeams.

Text Authorship:

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

a text in German (Deutsch) by (Christian) Friedrich Hebbel (1813 - 1863), "Herbstbild", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Vermischte Gedichte
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 76