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Wie Melodien zieht es Mir leise durch den Sinn, Wie Frühlingsblumen blüht es, Und schwebt wie Duft dahin. Doch kommt das Wort und faßt es Und führt es vor das Aug', Wie Nebelgrau erblaßt es Und schwindet wie ein Hauch. Und dennoch ruht im Reime Verborgen wohl ein Duft, Den mild aus stillem Keime Ein feuchtes Auge ruft.
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Confirmed with Klaus Groth's Gesammelte Werke. Vierter Band. Plattdeutsche Erzählungen - Hochdeutsche Gedichte, Kiel und Leipzig, Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1893, page 177.
Text Authorship:
- by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in Erstes Fünfzig, in Klänge, no. 13, Hamburg, first published 1854 [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), "Wie Melodien zieht es mir", op. 105 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1 (1886), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Wie Melodien zieht es mir", 1898? [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Com una melodia, quelcom passa", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Als melodieën gloeit het", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "It moves like a melody", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , "Just like a melody", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Leonard Lehrman) , "Like melodies", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Comme des mélodies", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Mar cheolta sí ag teacht chugam", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Come una melodia", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Stephen Jackson) , "Se mueve como una melodía", copyright © 2015, (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: 12
Word count: 58
Mar cheolta sí ag teacht chugam I m’aignese go séimh, Mar bhlátha earraigh úra Go cumhra tríd an aer. An briathar beireann greim air Is tugtar é don tsúil, Is imíonn is gan feidhm leis Mar anáil nó mar dhrúcht. Fós féin sa dán tá fáil air Mar chumhracht ina rún, Ag éalú as na blátha Ar ghlaoch ón deoir sa tsúil.
Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2016 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in Erstes Fünfzig, in Klänge, no. 13, Hamburg, first published 1854
This text was added to the website: 2016-01-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 62