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Von [waldbekränzter]1 Höhe Werf' ich den heißen Blick Der liebefeuchten Sehe Zur Flur, die dich umgrünt, zurück. Ich senk' ihn auf die Quelle -- Vermöcht' ich, ach, mit ihr Zu fließen eine Welle, Zurück, o Freund, zu dir, zu dir! Ich richt' ihn auf die Züge Der Wolken über mir -- Ach, flög' ich ihre Flüge, Zurück, o Freund, zu dir, zu dir! Wie wollt' ich dich umstricken, Mein Heil und meine Pein, Mit Lippen und mit Blicken, Mit Busen, Herz und Seele dein!
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View text without footnotes1 in some versions of Daumer's poem: "***'s schöner"
Text Authorship:
- by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Frauenbilder und Huldigungen, in Anhang, no. 5, first published 1853 [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Von waldbekränzter Höhe", op. 57 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge) no. 1 (<<1871), published 1872, first performed 1872 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Des de les alçàries coronades de bosc", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Van bosbekranste hoogten", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "From forest-crowned heights", copyright ©
- ENG English (Kyle Gee) , "From mountain peaks crowned by the forest", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Des hauteurs couronnées de la forêt", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 83
From mountain peaks crowned by the forest, I cast the burning gaze of my eyes that glisten with love back to the pasture flourishing in green around you. I let my gaze descend to the stream, ah, if only I were able to splash along with it as a wave, back to you, to you my friend! I direct it to the procession of clouds that billow above me, ah, how I would fly with them, back to you, to you my friend! How I would ensnare you, you, my salvation and my suffering, with lips and with gazes, with my breast, heart, and soul -- yours!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Kyle Gee, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Frauenbilder und Huldigungen, in Anhang, no. 5, first published 1853
This text was added to the website: 2014-01-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 106