Nichts als strömen, nichts als brennen, Blindlings in das Feuer rennen, Hingerissen, hingegeben Der unendlichen Flamme: Leben! Plötzlich aber, bang durchzittert, Sehnt aus dem unendlichen Glück Angstvoll sich das Herz zurück, Das den Tod im Lieben wittert ...
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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 299.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Wollust", written 1929, appears in Verse im Krankenbett, no. 17 [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 Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Wollust", op. 12 no. 12 [ medium voice and piano ], from Zwölf volkstümliche Gesänge für mittlere Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Zintl (1903 - 1987), "Wollust ", 1950 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Sensuality", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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