Perspective | Come into the garden then, you lovely one!

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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Aussicht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Komm zum Garten denn, du Holde!
In den warmen schönen Tagen
Sollst Du Blumenkränze tragen,
Und vom kühl krystall'nen Golde
Mit den frischen, rothen Lippen,
Eh' ich trinke, lächelnd nippen.
Ohne Maß dann, ohne Richter,
Küssend, trinkend singt der Dichter
Lieder, die von selbst entschweben:
Wunderschön ist doch das Leben!

Confirmed with Gedichte von Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff, Zwölfte Auflage, C. F. Amelang's Verlag, 1881, pages 232-233.

Text Authorship:

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Aussicht", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe [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 Eduard Chiari (1883 - 1954), "Aussicht ", op. 7 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "Aussicht", op. 5 no. 6 (1911) [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder: So Gott und Papa will, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Aussicht", op. 46 (Sieben Gedichte = Семь стихотворений (Sem' stikhotvorenij)) no. 3 (1925-6) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Walter Schulthess (1894 - 1971), "Aussicht" [sung text not yet checked]

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Perspective

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Come into the garden then, you lovely one!
In the warm, beautiful days
You should wear wreaths of flowers
And from cool, crystalline gold
With fresh, red lips,
Take a smiling sip before I drink.
Without measure then, without judges,
Kissing, drinking, the poet sings
Songs that float away by themselves:
For Life is wonderfully beautiful!

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Aussicht", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe
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This text was added to the website: 2022-06-27
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Word count: 56