Wandering in springtime | I walked over the fields

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Frühlingswanderung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Übers Feld bin ich gegangen,
Wo die tausend Blumen stehn,
Spielend sich die Winde haschen,
Bienen goldnen Honig naschen
Und die jungen Blütenreiser
Grüssend hin und wieder wehn.

Ach, was für ein selig Wandern
War's in Duft und Sonnenschein,
Da kein Laut der Welt mich störte,
Da ich ganz mir selbst gehörte,
Und des Frühlings helle Stimme
Klang in meinen Schritt hinein!

Confirmed with Die Gartenlaube. Illustriertes Familienblatt, Halbheft 8. (1903), page 201.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Frühlingswanderung" [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 Max Höhne ( flourished c1900 ), "Frühlingswanderung", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Gesänge, no. 6, Leipzig: Edmund Stoll [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Wandering in springtime", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-10-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 62

Wandering in springtime

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I walked over the fields
Where thousands of flowers grow,
[Where the] winds play tag with one another,
[Where the] bees snack upon golden honey,
And the young blossom branches
Waft to and fro in greeting.

Ah, what a blissful wandering 
It was in scent and sunshine,
Where no sound of the world disturbed me,
Where I belonged utterly to myself,
And the bright voice of springtime
Was ringing in my steps!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Frühlingswanderung"
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This text was added to the website: 2024-01-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 72