Zu allen Sternen spähe

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by Vilhelm Ekelund (1880 - 1949)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Mot alla stjärnor spanar

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: GER

Mot alla stjärnor spanar 
min blick i denna natt,
din närhets fläkt jag anar ...
jag ser en skymtning matt.

I löfven leker suset, 
och natten lyssnar still,
i bleka vårnattsljuset 
tar dagen långsamt till.

Mig tyckes natten bära 
ditt namn i svag musik,
mig tycks du är mig nära, 
du som min själ är lik.

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Text Authorship:

by Vilhelm Ekelund (1880 - 1949), no title, first published 1902 [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 Erkki Gustaf Melartin (1875 - 1937), "Mot alla stjärnor", op. 73 (Lieder mit Klavier = Songs with piano) no. 3 (1912) [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johannes Öhquist (1861 - 1949) ; composed by Erkki Gustaf Melartin.

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

GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2018-11-01
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Word count: 55

Zu allen Sternen spähe

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Zu allen Sternen spähe
ich hoch in dieser Nacht,
ich ahne deine Nähe …
die Dämm’rung schimmert sacht.

Im Laube spielt ein Rauschen,
die Nacht hört stille zu,
im blassen Lenznachtdämmer
kommt sanft der Tag zur Ruh.

Hör deinen Namen wehen
in nächt’ger Töne Reich,
ich mein, dich nah zu sehen,
dich, die mir seelengleich.

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a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Vilhelm Ekelund (1880 - 1949), no title, first published 1902
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This text was added to the website: 2018-11-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 55