by
Stefan George (1868 - 1933)
Streng ist uns das glück und spröde ·
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): CAT ENG FRE ITA
Streng ist uns das glück und spröde ·
Was vermocht ein kurzer kuss?
Eines regentropfens guss
Auf gesengter bleicher öde
Die ihn ungenossen schlingt ·
Neue labung missen muss
Und vor neuen gluten springt.
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Confirmed with Stefan George, Die Bücher der Hirten- und Preisgedichte, der Sagen und Sänge und der hängenden Gärten. Gesamt-Ausgabe der Werke, Band 3, Berlin, 1930, page 107.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Austera ens és la felicitat i fràgil", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Happiness is severe with us and aloof", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dura è per noi la felicità, e fragile", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Happiness is severe with us and aloof
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Happiness is severe with us and aloof;
What can a short kiss achieve?
[It is] the shower of a single raindrop
Upon a singed, pale, desolate expanse,
Which devours it untasted,
Which must forego new refreshing
And bursts with new fires.
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