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Einsam fühlt sich und verlassen Jener heimatferne Mann, Der vor Sehnsucht weder hassen, Weder glühend lieben kann. Ferne schweifen seine Träume, Wo die Gletscher rosig glühn, Wo bei trautem Flutgeschäume Vielgeliebte Blumen blühn. All die Wolken möcht' er küssen, Die nach seinen Bergen fliehn, Beten möcht' er an den Flüssen, Die [aus]1 seinen Landen ziehn: So auch hängt an einem Sterne [Dieser]2 ruhberaubte Sinn, Deiner Augen blaue Ferne Zieht mich unvermeidlich hin: Deine Stimme voller Güte, Lieblich wie der Frühlingswind, Lippen, die in ihrer Blüte Meiner Seele Heimat sind -- Denk' ich ihrer, wird verlassen Einsam mir wie jenem Mann, Der vor Sehnsucht weder hassen Weder glühend lieben kann.
Confirmed with Gedichte von Adolf Böttger, Dritte vermehrte Auflage, Leipzig: Otto Klemm, 1847, pages 47-48
1 von Kolb: "nach"2 von Kolb: "Jener"
Text Authorship:
- by Adolf Böttger (1815 - 1870), "Einsam fühlt sich und verlassen", appears in Gedichte, in Frühlingsmelodieen [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 Julius von Kolb (1831 - 1864?), "Einsam fühlt sich und verlassen", op. 3 no. 3, published 1852 [ voice and piano ], from Frühlingsmelodien, no. 3, Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-27
Line count: 24
Word count: 110
Lonely and forsaken feels That man, far from home, Who because of his [great] longing can neither hate Nor fervently love. His dreams rove in the distance, Where glaciers glow rosily, Where by the familiar foaming of the river Much-loved flowers bloom. He would like to kiss every cloud That scuds toward his mountains, He would like to pray by every river That flows [from]1 his lands. Thus, too, hangs upon a single star [This]2 spirit, deprived of all peace; The blue distance of your eyes Pulls me inevitably [toward you]: Your voice full of kindness, Lovely as the springtime wind, Lips, which in their flowering Are the homeland of my soul -- If I think of them, I feel as forsaken [And] lonely as that man, Who because of his [great] longing can neither hate, Nor fervently love.
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View text without footnotes1 von Kolb: "toward"
2 von Kolb: "That"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Adolf Böttger (1815 - 1870), "Einsam fühlt sich und verlassen", appears in Gedichte, in Frühlingsmelodieen
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-27
Line count: 24
Word count: 140