Chloe

Welche blühende Natur
Lacht aus Chloen mir entgegen! 
Wie nach einem milden Regen
Eine helle Maienflur. 

Wangen, Stirne, Mund und Blick,
Alles was mein Auge sieht,
Alles lacht und alles blühet
Süßer Liebe süßes Glück; 

Von der Seele schönem Geist, 
Der ihr sanftes Herz erfüllet,
In die schwarzen Augen quillet,
Und auf alles sich ergießt;

Ihre himmlische Gestalt,
Wie ein goldner Schein, umschwebet,
Ihre zarten Glieder hebet,
Und in ihrer Stimme schallt.

Confirmed with Friedrich August Clemens Werthes, Hirtenlieder , Leipzig: in Commission bey Johann Gottfried Müller, 1772, pages 35 - 36.

Authorship

• by Friedrich August Clemens Werthes (1748 - 1817), "Chloe", appears in Hirtenlieder, Leipzig: in Commission bey Johann Gottfried Müller, first published 1772 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Philipp Christoph Kayser (1755 - 1823), "Chloe", published 1775. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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