At night | Waft, oh peaceful evening breeze, gently

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by Siegfried Trebitsch (1869 - 1956)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nachts

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Streiche, o friedlicher Abendwind, sacht
über die glühende Stirne.
[Locket]¹, ihr duftenden Lieder der Nacht,
leise herauf die Gestirne.

Laßt mir erlösende Träume erstehn,
Antwort singt all meinen Fragen,
laßt mich das Leben [erkennen]² und sehn,
ob seine Wellen mich tragen.

Hört mich, ihr Sterne, und hemmet den Lauf.
stillt erst mein Sehnen und Leiden!
Zehrende Wünsche zittern herauf:
Gibt es nichts denn als Scheiden?

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Korngold

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Confirmed with Siegfried Trebitsch, Wellen und Wege, München und Leipzig: bei Georg Müller, 1913, page 34.

¹ Korngold: "Lobet"
² Korngold: "ersinnen"

Text Authorship:

by Siegfried Trebitsch (1869 - 1956), "Nachts", appears in Wellen und Wege [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 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "Nachts", 1911/3, from Einfache Lieder, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Paul Hindemith) , "By Night", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "At night", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Peter Donderwinkel , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 68

At night

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Waft, oh peaceful evening breeze, gently
over my burning brow.
Ye scented songs of the night, quietly 
[entice]¹ the stars to rise.

Let redeeming dreams arise for me,
sing answers to all my questions,
let me [understand]² life and see
if its waves can carry me.

Harken to me, ye stars, and arrest your onward motion,
first assuage my yearning and suffering!
wishes that all but consume me tremble upward:
Is there nothing but parting?

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¹ Korngold: "with rejoicing cause"
² Korngold: "contrive"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Siegfried Trebitsch (1869 - 1956), "Nachts", appears in Wellen und Wege
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This text was added to the website: 2022-11-23
Line count: 12
Word count: 77