Ruhestatt in einem Park | (in einem Park)

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Dors au fond de l'allée

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER

Dors au fond de l'allée,
tendre enfant, sous la dalle,
on fera le chant de l'été
autour de ton intervalle.

Si une blanche colombe
passait au vol là-haut,
je n'offrirais à ton tombeau
que son ombre qui tombe.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 131.

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Tombeau", subtitle: "(dans un parc)", appears in Poèmes français, in 7. Poèmes épars [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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Tombeau dans un parc", op. 27 no. 3 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 3, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Tombeau dans un parc", op. 21 no. 14 (1983) [ high voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Tomba en un parc", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , "Grave in a park", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Ruhestatt in einem Park", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 38

Ruhestatt in einem Park

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

    (in einem Park)
Ruh' am Ende des Weges,
zartes Kind, unter dem Stein,
des Sommers Lied wird dir gesungen,
solange du dort schläfst.

Zög' eine weiße Taube
in hohem Flug darüber,
nur ihren Schatten legte ich
auf deinem Grabe nieder.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2011 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 French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Tombeau", subtitle: "(dans un parc)", appears in Poèmes français, in 7. Poèmes épars
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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-22
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Word count: 43