Evening bliss | However lovely and beautifully through the trees

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by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Abendwonne

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

  Wie hold und lieblich durch die Bäume 
Du lächelst, goldner Abendstrahl, 
Viel schöner doch sind meine Träume, 
Und sonniger viel tausendmal! 

  Wie hoch ihr flieget durch die Lüfte, 
Und froh herab, ihr Vögel, singt, 
Wie laut ihr grüßt die süßen Düfte, 
Noch frischer doch mein Lied erklingt! 

  Wie keck ihr strömet, grüne Wogen,
Und leis dann fließt am Ufer hin, 
Nie kommt so freudig ihr gezogen, 
So friedevoll, wie ich es bin!

Confirmed with Neue Lieder von Friedrich Oser (1874-1884), Basel: Verlag von M. Bernheim, 1885, page 59.

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Abendwonne", appears in Neue Lieder, in Erstes Buch, no. 68 [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 Hans Michael Schletterer (1824 - 1893), "Abendwonne", op. 41 (Zehn Chor-Duette (im Freien zu singen)) no. 8, published 1879 [ sa chorus ], Leipzig: Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Evening bliss", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Evening bliss

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  However lovely and beautifully through the trees
You smile, golden beam of evening,
Much more beautiful, nevertheless, are my dreams,
And many thousands of times sunnier!

  However high ye birds fly through the air
And [however] joyfully downward you sing,
However loudly you greet the sweet scents,
My song, nevertheless, sounds forth more freshly!

  However audaciously ye rush by, green waves,
And then quietly flow along the riverbank,
Ye never come along so joyfully,
So peacefully, as I am [joyful and peaceful]!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Abendwonne", appears in Neue Lieder, in Erstes Buch, no. 68
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This text was added to the website: 2025-04-05
Line count: 12
Word count: 83