English translations of Fünf Lieder, opus 43

by Édouard de Hartog (1829 - 1909)

1. Die blauen Frühlingsaugen  [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard de Hartog (1829 - 1909), "Die blauen Frühlingsaugen", op. 43 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3
Language: German (Deutsch) 
  Die blauen Frühlingsaugen
Schau'n aus dem Gras [hervor]1;
Das sind die [lieben]2 Veilchen,
Die ich zum Strauß erkor.

  Ich pflücke sie und denke,
Und die Gedanken all,
Die mir im Herzen seufzen,
Singt laut die Nachtigall.

  [Ja,]3 was ich denke, singt sie
[Lautschmetternd]4, daß es schallt;
Mein zärtliches Geheimnis
Weiß schon der ganze Wald.

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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 243

1 Decker: "empor"
2 Methfessel: "blauen"
3 Decker: "Und"
4 Methfessel, Thuille: "Und schmettert"

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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Language: English 
  The blue eyes of spring 
Peep [forth]1 from the grass;
Those are the [dear]2 violets
That I chose for a bouquet.

  I pick them and I ponder,
And all of the thoughts
That are sighing within my heart,
The nightingale sings them loudly.

  [Yes,]3 what I'm thinking, [the nightingale] sings
[Like a loud]4 clarion, so that it resounds;
My most tender secret
Is already known to the whole wood.

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Translations of title(s):
"Frühlingslied II" = "Spring song II"
"Schubert" = "Schubert"
"Im Frühling" = "In spring"
"Verratene Liebe" = "Revealed love"
"Das verrathene Geheimniss" = "The revealed secret"
"Frühlingslied" = "Spring song"
"Neuer Frühling" = "New spring"
"Die blauen Frühlingsaugen schau'n aus dem Gras hervor" = "The blue eyes of spring peep forth from the grass"
"Lautes Geheimnis" = "Open secret"
"Verratene Liebe: Duett" = "Revealed love: duet"
"Das Veilchen" = "The violet"
"Die blauen Frühlingsaugen" = "The blue eyes of spring"
"Frühlingsaugen" = "Eyes of spring"
"Duett" = "Duet"

1 von Decker "up"
2 Methfessel "blue"
3 von Decker "And"
4 Methfessel "And like a"


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2. Sie floh' vor mir wie'n Reh so scheu  [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard de Hartog (1829 - 1909), "Sie floh' vor mir wie'n Reh so scheu", op. 43 (Fünf Lieder) no. 5
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Sie floh vor mir wie 'n Reh so scheu,
Und wie ein Reh geschwinde!
Sie kletterte von Klipp zu Klipp,
Ihr Haar, das flog im Winde.

Wo sich zum Meer der Felsen senkt,
Da hab ich sie erreichet,
Da hab ich sanft mit sanftem Wort
Ihr sprödes Herz erweichet.

Hier saßen wir so himmelhoch,
Und auch so himmelselig;
Tief unter uns, ins dunkle Meer,
Die Sonne sank allmählich.

Tief unter uns, ins dunkle Meer,
Versank die schöne Sonne;
Die Wogen rauschten drüber hin,
Mit ungestümer Wonne.

O weine nicht, die Sonne liegt
Nicht tot in jenen Fluten;
Sie hat sich in mein Herz versteckt
Mit allen ihren Gluten.

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
2. She fled from me
Language: English 
 She fled from me like a deer so shy,
 and like a deer, so swift!
 She scrambled from rock to rock,
 her hair flying in the wind.
 
 Where the cliffs drop down to the sea,
 there I caught up with her,
 there, gently, with kind words
 I softened her demure heart.
 
 Here we sat so heavenly high,
 and also so heavenly blissful;
 deep beneath us into the dark sea,
 the sun sank gradually.
 
 Deep beneath us into the dark sea
 sank the lovely sun;
 the waves roared about
 with raging bliss.
 
 O do not cry, the sun does not lie
 dead in that flood;
 It has hidden itself in my heart
 with all its blaze.

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