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Chetyre stikhotvorenija : G. Geine , opus 3

by Dmitry Mikheyevich Melkikh (1885 - 1943)

1. Die schlanke Wasserlilie  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
  Die schlanke Wasserlilie
Schaut träumend empor aus dem See;
Da grüßt der Mond herunter
Mit lichtem Liebesweh.

  Verschämt senkt sie [das]1 Köpfchen
Wieder [hinab]2 zu den Welln --
Da sieht sie zu ihren Füßen
Den armen [blassen]3 Geselln.

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 15

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "L'esvelt nenúfar", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) , "The slender waterlily", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Quand l'élégante fleur de nénuphar", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Lo snello giglio d'acqua", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 244

1 Pfitzner: "ihr"
2 Pfitzner: "zurück"
3 omitted by Pfitzner

1. Из вод подымая головку
 (Sung text)

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Из вод подымая головку,
Лилея в раздумье глядит.
С высот улыбаяся,
Месяц к ней тихой любовью горит.

Лилея стыдливо склонила
Головку на зеркало вод,
А он уж у ног её, бедный,
Трепещет и свет свой лиёт.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

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  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 15
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2. Я утром тебе посылаю фиалки
 (Sung text)

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Я утром тебе посылаю фиалки, 
что утром собрал я в лесу,
а розы, что в сумерки сорваны мной,
тебе в час вечерний несу.

Ты знаешь ли, что я хотел бы тебе
этой речю цветочной сказать?
Что днем ты должна оставаться мне верной, 
а ночью любить, да любить.

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  • by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

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  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 33
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2. Die Veilchen Morgens  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Morgens send ich dir die Veilchen,
Die ich früh im Wald gefunden,
Und des Abends bring ich Rosen,
Die ich brach in Dämmrungstunden.

Weißt du, was die hübschen Blumen
Dir Verblümtes sagen möchten?
Treu sein sollst du mir am Tage
Und mich lieben in den Nächten.

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 33

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  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

3. Wenn zwei von einander scheiden  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Wenn zwei von einander scheiden,
So geben sie sich die Händ',
Und fangen an zu weinen,
Und seufzen ohne End'.

Wir haben nicht [geweinet]1,
Wir seufzten nicht Weh und Ach!
Die [Tränen und die Seufzer]2,
Die kamen hinten nach.

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 49

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  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) (Harald Krebs) , "When two people part", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 49, first published 1827
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 153.

1 Reinecke: "geweint"
2 Decker, Reinecke: "Seufzer und die Tränen"

3. Когда разлучаются двое
 (Sung text)

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Когда разлучаются двое,
То руку друг другу дают,
И горько вздыхать начинают,
И слёзы горючия лыют.

А мы с тобой не вздыхали,
Без стонов прощанье снесли...
Тяжёлые вздохи и слёзы
Уж после разлуки пришли!

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  • by Pyotr Isayevich Veinberg (1831 - 1908), no title

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4. Они любили друг друга  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: Russian (Русский) 
Они любили друг друга так [долго и]1 нежно,
С тоскою глубокой и страстью безумно-мятежной!
Но, как враги, избегали признанья и встречи,
И были пусты и хладны их краткие речи.

Они [расстались]2 в безмолвном и гордом страданье,
И милый образ во сне лишь порою видали.
И смерть пришла: наступило за гробом свиданье...
Но в мире новом друг друга они не узналли.

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  • by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841), no title

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  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 33
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1 Cherepnin: "долго, так" ("dolgo, tak")
2 Myaskovsky: "расставались" ("rasstavalis' ")

4. Sie liebten sich beide  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
  Sie liebten sich beide, doch keiner
Wollt' es dem andern gestehn;
Sie sahen sich an so feindlich,
Und wollten vor Liebe vergehn.

  Sie trennten sich endlich und [sahn]1 sich
Nur noch zuweilen im Traum;
Sie waren [längst]2 gestorben
Und wußten es selber kaum.

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 33

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Verliefd waren beiden", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Kenneth Smith) , "They once loved each other", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ils s'aimaient tous les deux", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Tous deux s'aimaient, pourtant aucun", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Si amavano entrambi", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 131.

1 Backer-Grøndahl, White: "sahen"
2 Backer-Grøndahl: "schon längst"

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