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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)
Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Über Bergen, Fluß und Talen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE ITA
Über Bergen, Fluß und Talen,
Stiller Lust und tiefen Qualen
Webet heimlich, schillert, Strahlen!
Sinnend ruht des Tags Gewühle
In der dunkelblauen Schwüle,
Und die ewigen Gefühle,
Was dir selber [unbewußt]1,
Treten heimlich, groß und leise
Aus der Wirrung fester Gleise,
Aus der unbewachten Brust,
In die stillen, weiten Kreise.

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•   E. Smyth 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Mittagsruh", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wanderlieder [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 (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Mittagsruh", op. 44 (Gesänge und Balladen) no. 3, published 1885 [ low voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Paul Kont (1920 - 2000), "Mittagsruh'", 1977 [ medium voice or low voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Mittagsruh", op. 81 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Mittagsgruß", op. 23a (Drei Gedichte von Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff) no. 1, published 1913 [ six-part mixed chorus a cappella ], München: Wunderhornverlag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ethel Mary Smyth, Dame (1858 - 1944), "Mittagsruh", op. 4 ([Fünf] Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Peters [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , "Stillness at noon", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Siesta", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Claus-Christian Schuster [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 52

Stillness at noon
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
Over hills and stream and valleys
silent joy and painful heartaches
cast a secret weave and shimmer, sunbeams!
Musingly day's bustle pauses
in the dark-blue sultry hour,
and eternal deepest feelings,
that of which you're unaware,
secretly, and strongly, gently,
leave the ever-trodden mazes,
step out of an unguarded breast
into still and boundless spaces.

Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2013 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 German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Mittagsruh", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Wanderlieder
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This text was added to the website: 2013-05-08
Line count: 11
Word count: 55

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