Heart's journey | Begin your flight once more, heart, to gaze

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by Niklas Müller (1809 - 1875)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Herzens Reise

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Beginn den Flug noch einmal, Herz, zu schauen
  In jenes Thal nach ihrem kleinen Haus,
Und wenn sie dann zum Himmel blickt, dem blauen,
  Zu ihrem Fenster liebebleich hinaus:

So senke dich als eine fromme Taube
  Hernieder auf das strohbedeckte Dach
Und girre bei der Nacht, damit sie glaube,
  Die Liebe sey zu jeder Stunde wach.

Confirmed with Lieder von Niclas Müller, eingeleitet von Gustav Schwab, Stuttgart und Tübingen: Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1837, page 136.

Text Authorship:

by Niklas Müller (1809 - 1875), "Herzens-Reise", appears in Lieder, in Liebe [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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Herzens Reise", op. 33[34] (Disteln und Dornen), Heft 2 no. 5, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg: G.W. Niemeyer [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Heart's journey", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2006-12-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 56

Heart's journey

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Begin your flight once more, heart, to gaze
  Down into that valley at her little house,
And when she then looks out of her window,
  Pale with love, toward the blue heavens:

Then settle as a virtuous dove
  Down upon her thatched roof
And coo at night, so that she may believe
  That love is awake at all hours.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Niklas Müller (1809 - 1875), "Herzens-Reise", appears in Lieder, in Liebe
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This text was added to the website: 2006-12-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 59