Lilac | Once it was spring here

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by F. van der Hœven

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Flieder

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Einst war [es hier]¹ Frühling
Und sonniger Mai,
[Es]² blühte der Flieder
Und Rosen dabei.

Mein Herz war voll Hoffen,
Es lachte und sang,
Nun ist es so [traurig]³,
Nun schlägt es so bang.

Es fielen die Blätter,
Entlaubt ist der Wald,
Verblüht ist der Flieder,
Mein Lied verhallt!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. Würz

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ Würz: "es"
² Würz: "Da"
³ Würz: "stille"

Text Authorship:

by F. van der Hœven [author's text not yet checked 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 Max J. L. Gus , "Flieder", published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung (Heft 2), no. 5, Wiesbaden, Schellenberg [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Würz (1885 - 1965), "Flieder", 1919, published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder, no. 8, München: Otto Halbreiter [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Lilac", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-12-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 53

Lilac

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Once it was spring here
And sunny May,
The lilacs were blooming
And roses as well.

My heart was full of hope,
It laughed and sang,
Now it is so sad,
Now it beats so anxiously.

The leaves fell,
The woods are stripped of foliage,
The lilac blossoms have withered,
My song has died away!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by F. van der Hœven
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This text was added to the website: 2017-04-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 55