Song of the imp | I listened to the finch in the green grove

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Schelmenlied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ich lauscht' dem Fink im grünen Haag,
Das hat mich so [bethört]¹.
Ach, hätt' ich auf den lust'gen Schlag
Des Kecken nicht [gehört]²!

Er sang so süß von Lieb' und Glück,
Vom Küssen mir ins Ohr --
Vom Scheiden kam im ganzen Stück
Kein Sterbenswörtchen vor.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• P. Graener

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Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Neunte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 123.

¹ Graener: "bethöret"
² Graener: "gehöret"

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Schelmenlied", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Vermischte Gedichte, no. 33 [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 Károly Aggházy (1855 - 1918), "Schelmenlied", op. 30 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kiesler [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hermann Franz Graener (1872 - 1944), "Schelmenlied", op. 30 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1909 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Martha von Wittich (1858 - 1931), "Schelmenlied", op. 7 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Deneke [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Song of the imp", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-07-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 48

Song of the imp

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I listened to the finch in the green grove,
It beguiled me so.
Ah, had I only not harkened to
The jolly song of the jaunty one!

Into my ear, it sang so sweetly of love 
And happiness, of kissing --
Of parting there was not a single word
In the entire song.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Schelmenlied", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Vermischte Gedichte, no. 33
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This text was added to the website: 2023-10-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 52