Look at the lovers | Look at the lovers

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Translation © by Knut W. Barde

Sieh dir die Liebenden an

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Sieh dir die Liebenden an,
wenn erst das Bekennen begann,
wie bald sie lügen.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Aus dem Nachlaß, in Lied, no. 2 [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 Natalie Bayada-Snoeren , "Lied" [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Rilke, no. 8b [sung text not yet checked]

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by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Du, der ichs nicht sage", op. 8 (Zwei Lieder nach Gedichten von Rainer Maria Rilke) no. 1 (1910)
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by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918 - 1970), "Lied der Abelone", 1939 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], Schott
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ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "Look at the lovers", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Regarde les amants", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
RUS Russian (Русский) (Greinem Izrailevich Ratgauz) , no title, copyright ©

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Word count: 14

Look at the lovers

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Look at the lovers,
Once confessing became their game,
How soon they start lying.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Aus dem Nachlaß, in Lied, no. 2
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 3
Word count: 14