Night song | Star shines beside star like sparks from a fire

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by Viktor Hirschfeld (1858 - 1940), as Victor Léon

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nachtlied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Stern glänzt an Stern gleich Feuerfunken,
Die sich vom Himmelszelte heben.
Mein Lieb und ich, wir blicken trunken
Und süße Lieder uns entschweben.

Wir blicken lange so versunken
Und uns umdämmert Mondesweben.
Wir küssen uns vor Liebe trunken
Und süße Lieder uns entschweben.

Komm, Liebchen, komm! Sanft hingesunken,
Halb schlummernd, fast entrückt dem Leben,
Im Traum höre ich wie trunken
Gar süße Lieder uns entschweben.

Text Authorship:

by Viktor Hirschfeld (1858 - 1940), as Victor Léon [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 Eduard Kremser (1838 - 1914), "Nachtlied", subtitle: "(Arabische Volksmelodie)" [ men's chorus and tenor solo ], Wien: Josef Weinberger [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Night song", subtitle: "(Arabic folk melody)", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2020-12-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 65

Night song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Star shines beside star like sparks from a fire,
[Stars] that are thrown into relief upon the vault of heaven.
My love and I, we gaze intoxicatedly
And sweet songs waft forth from us.

Thus rapt, we gaze for a long time
And we are woven about by the coming of moonlight.
Intoxicated with love we kiss each other
And sweet songs waft forth from us.

Come, darling, come! Gently reclining,
Half slumbering, almost enraptured out of life,
In my dreams I hear, as if intoxicated,
Very sweet songs waft forth from us.

Subtitle: "(Arabic folk melody)"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Viktor Hirschfeld (1858 - 1940), as Victor Léon
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This text was added to the website: 2020-12-26
Line count: 12
Word count: 93