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by Karl Christian Tenner (1791 - 1866)

Letztes Glück
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
 Sie lag so blaß, sie lag so krank, 
Ich hob sie zitternd auf; 
Sie neigt' an meine Brust ihr Haupt, 
Ich weinte still darauf. 

Sie drückte lächelnd mir die Hand, 
Sie sah so treu mich an; 
Sie küßte sanft die Thräne weg, 
Die mir vom Auge rann.  

Es war ihr letzter Händedruck, 
Es war ihr letzter Blick, 
Es war ihr letzter Liebeskuß  --  
Es war mein letztes Glück. 

Confirmed with Herzensklänge: Dichter-Album für deutsche Frauen und Jungfrauen, zweite Auflage, ed. by Arnold Perls, Leipzig: C. A. Koch's Verlag, 1878, page 110; also confirmed with a literary review of Gedichte von Karl Christian Tenner, Darmstadt: Zernin, 1871, published in Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung; and confirmed with Karl Christian Tenner, Gedichte, Darmstadt: Eduard Zernin, 1870, page 54. Appears in Natur und Liebe.


Text Authorship:

  • by Karl Christian Tenner (1791 - 1866), "Letztes Glück", appears in Gedichte, in Natur und Liebe, first published <<1871 [author's text checked 3 times 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 Franciscus Johannes van der Heijden (b. 1848), "Letztes Glück", op. 22 (Fünf Lieder) no. 2, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carl Kleemann , "Letztes Glück", op. 7 (Vier Lieder für tiefe Stimme) no. 2, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Simrock [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Last happiness", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Bertram Kottmann , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2020-02-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 68

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