Monotonie | Sa bouche est toujours la même

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by Karl Joachim ("Achim") Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (1781 - 1831)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Einerlei

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE SPA

Ihr Mund ist stets derselbe,
Sein Kuß mir immer neu,
Ihr Auge noch dasselbe,
Sein freier Blick mir treu;
O du liebes Einerlei,
Wie wird aus dir so mancherlei!

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joachim ("Achim") Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (1781 - 1831), "Einerlei" [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 Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Einerlei", op. 15 (24 Lieder) no. 12 (>>2000) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Einerlei", op. 69 (Fünf kleine Lieder nach Gedichten von Achim von Arnim und Heinrich Heine) no. 3 (1918) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Monotonia", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Enige jij", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) (Rebecca Plack) , "Singular one", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Monotonie", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "Uniformidad", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Lawrence Snyder

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 29

Monotonie

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

Sa bouche est toujours la même,
Son baiser m'est toujours nouveau,
Ses yeux sont encore les mêmes
Son regard libre m'est fidèle ;
Ô toi, chère monotonie,
Combien de diversité en toi !

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2013 by Pierre Mathé, (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.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joachim ("Achim") Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim (1781 - 1831), "Einerlei"
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This text was added to the website: 2013-05-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 31