LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,813)
  • Text Authors (20,758)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,129)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

×

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)
Translation © by Pierre Mathé

O wunderbares, tiefes Schweigen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
O wunderbares, tiefes Schweigen,
Wie einsam ist's noch auf der Welt!
Die Wälder nur sich leise neigen,
Als ging' der Herr durchs stille Feld.

Ich fühl mich recht wie neu geschaffen,
Wo ist die Sorge nun und Not?
Was mich noch gestern wollt' erschlaffen,
Ich schäm' mich dess im Morgenrot.

Die Welt mit ihrem Gram und Glücke
Will ich, ein Pilger, frohbereit
Betreten nur wie eine Brücke
Zu dir, Herr, übern Strom der Zeit.

Und buhlt mein Lied, auf Weltgunst lauernd,
Um schnöden Sold der Eitelkeit:
Zerschlag' mein Saitenspiel, und schauernd
Schweig ich vor dir in Ewigkeit.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   Albert •   L. Erk •   F. Mendelssohn •   F. Volkmann 

F. Mendelssohn sets stanzas 1-3
L. Erk sets stanzas 1-3
A. Matton sets stanzas 1-3
F. Volkmann sets stanzas 1-3

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Morgengebet", appears in Gedichte, in 6. Geistliche Gedichte [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Go to the general view


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Tino Brütsch , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2004-04-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 107

Ô, prodigieux, profond silence
NOTE: the footnotes have been removed from this text; return to general view
Language: French (Français)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Ô, prodigieux, profond silence,
Quelle solitude encore sur le monde !
Seules les forêt s'inclinent doucement
Lorsque passe le Seigneur dans le champ silencieux.

Je me sens comme si je venais d'être créé,
Où sont maintenant inquiétude et détresse ?
Ce qui hier encore m'aurait affaibli
Me fait honte devant cette aurore.

Le monde, avec ses chagrins et bonheurs,
Moi, pèlerin heureux, je suis prêt
À le traverser juste comme un pont
Franchissant le cours du temps, jusqu'à toi, Seigneur.

Et si mon chant cherche à convoiter les faveurs du monde
Pour le méprisable salaire de la vanité :
Arrache les cordes de ma lyre, et tremblant
Je resterai silencieux devant toi pour l'éternité.

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes
Translation of title "Morgengebet" = "Prière du matin"

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2015 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
    Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Morgengebet", appears in Gedichte, in 6. Geistliche Gedichte
    • Go to the text page.

Go to the general view


This text was added to the website: 2015-06-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 114

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris