Spring | When the sunshine kisses the earth

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

by Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Frühling

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Küßt der Sonnenschein die Erde,
   Fühlt sie seine Glutgewalt:
Dann entkeimen ihrem Schoße
   Blumen bunt und mannigfalt.

So auch keimt in Deiner Nähe
   Lied auf Lied aus meiner Brust;
Fühl' ich Deines Auges Flammen,
   Athm' ich Deines Wesens Lust.

Fehlt das Sonnenlicht der Erde,
   Hat sie nicht ein grünes Blatt,
Wie mein Herz, von Dir geschieden,
   Weder Lenz noch Lieder hat.

Confirmed with O. Malybrok-Stieler, Lyrische Gedichte und Uebertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, Prag: Druck und Verlag von J. Otto, 1887, page 14.

Text Authorship:

by Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler, "Frühling", appears in Lyrische Gedichte und Übertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, in 1. Lyrische Gedichte, in 1. Liebe, first published 1887 [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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Frühling", op. 82 (Vier Lieder) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Spring", 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: 2013-07-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

Spring

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

When the sunshine kisses the earth
   It feels [the sun’s] radiant power:
Then from its womb arise
   Flowers, colourful and manifold.

Thus when I am near you,
   Song upon song arises in my breast;
When I feel the flames of your eyes,
   I breathe in the rapture of your being.

When the earth is lacking sunlight,
   It has not a single green leaf,
Just as my heart, separated from you,
   Has neither spring nor songs.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2017 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler, "Frühling", appears in Lyrische Gedichte und Übertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, in 1. Lyrische Gedichte, in 1. Liebe, first published 1887
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2017-06-29
Line count: 12
Word count: 75