At night | Past your window

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by Friedrich Adolf Ludwig von Oeynhausen (1795 - 1871)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nachts

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Deinem Fenster vorüber
Oft in der Stille der Nacht
Schleich' ich und blicke hinüber
Heimlich wenn keiner mehr wacht!

Matt noch erhellt ist dein Zimmer,
Aber es reget sich nichts,
Nieder um mich fliesst der Schimmer
Deines einsamen Lichts.

Und blass im goldenen Kreise
Umwebet der Schein mich so kühl,
Seh' es und schleiche mich leise
Vorüber und träume mir viel.

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Adolf Ludwig von Oeynhausen (1795 - 1871), first published 1872 [author's text not yet checked 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 Julius Otto Grimm (1827 - 1903), "Nachts", op. 20 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 3, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "At night", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-09-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

At night

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Past your window,
Often in the quietness of the night,
I creep and gaze over at it
Secretly, when no one else is awake!

Your chamber is still dimly lit,
But nothing stirs.
Down upon me flows the shimmer
Of your lonely light.

And palely in a golden circle
The sheen of the light weaves itself all about me,
I see it and creep softly past,
And dream of many things.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Adolf Ludwig von Oeynhausen (1795 - 1871), first published 1872
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This text was added to the website: 2013-03-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 71