LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

×

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Wie Blätter am Baum
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FRE ITA
Chor:
 Wie Blätter am Baum,
 Wie Blumen vergeh'n -
 Wie Blütenflaum
 Die Winde verweh'n.

 So geht vorbei
 Des Lebens Mai
 Eh' wir's denken,
 Deckt das Grab,
 Was das Leben
 Liebes gab!

Rose:
 Oh Schwester, tief beklagt!

Chor:
 Wir werfen in dein frühes Grab
 Die Blumen betend still hinab.-

Totengräber:
 Sei dir die Erde leicht!

Chor:
 Der Erde geben wir zurück Dich,
 uns're Hoffnung, unser Glück.

Rose:
 Schlumm're sanft!

Chor:
 Schmerz ging mit uns ans Grab hinaus,
 Schmerz geht mit uns ins Trauerhaus!

Rose:
 Ruh' sanft!

About the headline (FAQ)

The text shown is a variant of another text. [ View differences ]
It is based on

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Moritz Horn (1814 - 1874), no title, appears in Die Pilgerfahrt der Rose, in Der Rose Rast, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, first published 1852
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Wie Blätter am Baum", op. 112 no. 8, published 1852 [ solo voices, chorus, and piano ], from oratorio Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, no. 8, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2004-07-30
Line count: 28
Word count: 84

Comme les feuilles sur les arbres
Language: French (Français)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Chœur :
 Comme les feuilles sur les arbres,
 Comme les fleurs fanent -
 Comme le duvet des fleurs
 Est emporté par le vent.

 Ainsi passe
 Le mois de mai de la vie.
 Avant que nous le réalisions
 La tombe recouvre
 Ce que la vie
 A donné d'amour !

La rose :
 Oh sœur, profondément regrettée !

Chœur :
 Nous jetons dans ta tombe précoce
 Les fleurs en priant silencieusement.

Le fossoyeur :
 Que la terre soit légère sur toi !

Chœur :
 Nous te rendons à la terre,
 Notre espoir, notre bonheur.

La rose :
 Dors en paix !

Chœur :
 La douleur a marché avec nous jusqu'à la tombe,
 La douleur a marché avec nous jusqu'à la maison de l'affliction.

La rose :
 Repose en paix !

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2011 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
    Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Not Applicable [an adaptation]
    • Go to the text page.

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Moritz Horn (1814 - 1874), no title, appears in Die Pilgerfahrt der Rose, in Der Rose Rast, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, first published 1852
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2011-08-24
Line count: 28
Word count: 114

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris