by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by James Thomson (1834 - 1882)
Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Language: German (Deutsch)
Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam Im Norden auf kahler Höh'; Ihn schläfert; mit weißer Decke Umhüllen ihn Eis und Schnee. Er träumt von einer Palme, Die fern im Morgenland, Einsam und schweigend trauert Auf brennender Felsenwand.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 137.
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- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 33 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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A pine‑tree standeth lonely
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
A pine-tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm Tree Which far in the East alone, In mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.
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- by James Thomson (1834 - 1882), "Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 67, first published 1887 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 33
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