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Ahnungsselige Waldesnacht!-- Leise lispeln die Blätter Und das silberne Mondlicht Zittert von Oben Hernieder. Dämmernd erscheint mir dein Bild Und begeistert Möcht' ich singen ein Lied, Wie die Drossel es sang, Die nun im Erlengebüsch Verstummt ist. Bist du doch selbst ein Gedicht, So wunderbar lieblich, Wie's kein begeisterter Dichtermund, Wie's kein schmelzender Vogelgesang Singen kann. Nicht mit dem silbernen Mond, Dem kalten, bleichen, Nicht mit der sengenden Sonne Kannst du verglichen werden, Du Holde, Doch wenn am Sommerabend In feuchter Verklärung Blinket der Abendstern, Denk' ich an deine Augen, O Ella!
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Confirmed with Gustav Kastropp, König Elf’s Lieder. Eine lyrische Rhapsodie, Zweite Auflage, Stuttgart: Verlag von Adolf Bonz & Comp., 1877, pages 30-31
Text Authorship:
- by Gustav Kastropp (1844 - 1925), no title, appears in König Elfs Lieder, in 1. Erster Teil. Rosenzeit, no. 28, first published 1875 [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 Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Ahnungsselige Waldesnacht", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Harold. Eine Folge von neun Gesängen aus Kastropp's lyrischer Rhapsodie "König Elf's Lieder" , no. 3, Mannheim, Heckel [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Blissfully portending forest night", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor], Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2010-03-11
Line count: 26
Word count: 92
Blissfully portending forest night!-- The leaves whisper quietly And the silvery moonlight From above trembles Downward. Dimly your image appears to me And, enraptured, I would like to sing a song, As it was sung by the thrush That in the elderbush has now Fallen silent. For you yourself are a poem, So wondrously lovely As no enraptured poet, As no melting bird song Could sing it. Not with the silvery moon, The cold pale one, Not with the singeing sun Can you be compared, You lovely one; But when on a summer evening In dewy transfiguration The evening star twinkles, Then I think of your eyes, Oh Ella!
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Gustav Kastropp (1844 - 1925), no title, appears in König Elfs Lieder, in 1. Erster Teil. Rosenzeit, no. 28, first published 1875
This text was added to the website: 2017-06-16
Line count: 26
Word count: 109