Sole consolation | During the day I think quietly of you

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by Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Einziger Trost

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Am Tage denk' ich still an Dich,
   Und träume Nachts von Dir,
Und keine Seele raubt den Traum
   Und die Gedanken mir.

Sie [liegen]¹ ja so innig fest
   Verwahrt in meiner Brust,
Die keinen Hauch verlieren will
   All ihrer Qual und Lust.

Und bist Du noch so ewig weit
   Und noch so fern von mir:
In meinem Traum bei Tag und Nacht
   Bin ich ja doch bei Dir!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Lang

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Confirmed with O. Malybrok-Stieler, Lyrische Gedichte und Übertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, Prag: Druck und Verlag von J. Otto, 1887, page 34.

¹ Lang: "ruhen"

Text Authorship:

by Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler, "Einziger Trost", appears in Lyrische Gedichte und Übertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, in 1. Lyrische Gedichte, in 1. 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by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Einziger Trost", 1868 [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erik Meyer-Helmund (1861 - 1932), "Einziger Trost", op. 81 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Rahter [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Sole consolation", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-23
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

Sole consolation

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

During the day I think quietly of you,
   And at night I dream of you,
And no one robs me of the dream
   And of the thoughts.

For they [lie]¹ so fervently and firmly
   Enshrined in my breast
That does not want to lose a breath
   Of all their agony and joy!

And even though you are so eternally distant
   And though so far from me:
In my dreams by day and by night
   I am nevertheless with you!

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¹ Lang: "rest"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler, "Einziger Trost", appears in Lyrische Gedichte und Übertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, in 1. Lyrische Gedichte, in 1. Liebe
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This text was added to the website: 2010-09-23
Line count: 12
Word count: 80