Drüben überm Berge Streut sein Licht der fahle Mond, Dort in ewiger Mondesnacht Meine tote Jugend wohnt. Drüben überm Berge Bei dem Grab der Königin Geht verhärmt im Geisterschritt Meine tote Liebe hin. Drüben überm Berge Wo die kühlen Tempel sind, Schluchzt vor meinen toten Göttern Ein verirrt Gebet im Wind.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 165.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Drüben", written 1897, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Drüben überm Berge streut sein Licht der fahle Mond", op. 98 no. 5 (1942), from Herbst, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Egon Kornauth (1891 - 1959), "Drüben", op. 22 (Lieder nach Hermann Hesse) no. 5, published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hildegard Quiel (1888 - 1971), "Drüben " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
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- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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