possibly by Hafis (Mohammed Schemsed-din) (c1327 - 1390) and possibly by Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (940 - 1020)
Translation by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892)
O, sanfter Wind! zum Ort hinwehe
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
O, sanfter Wind! zum Ort hinwehe Der Dir bekannt -- Und jenes süße Wort gestehe Das Dir bekannt! Die Antwort bleibe, bringt sie Wehe Mir ungenannt -- Doch, bringt sie Heil: komm und gestehe Was Dir bekannt!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Friedrich Bodenstedt, Tausend und Ein Tag im Orient, zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage, Berlin: 1853, page 104.
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt (1819 - 1892), no title, appears in Tausend und Ein Tag im Orient, Berlin: Decker, 1850 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) possibly by Hafis (Mohammed Schemsed-din) (c1327 - 1390) [text unavailable] and possibly by Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (940 - 1020) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Heinrich August Marschner (1795 - 1861), "An Zuleika", op. 169 no. 2, published 1855 [ voice and piano ], from Orientalischer Liederschatz von Fr. Bodenstedt, no. 2, Hamburg, Böhme [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Martin Reinthaler (1822 - 1896), "O sanfter Wind", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published c1860 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert (1811 - 1891), "Botschaft", op. 174 (Sieben Lieder) no. 2, published 1870 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, N. Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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