English translations of Fünf Lieder, opus 1

by Heinrich Timm (1811 - 1892)

1. Die schlanke Wasserlilie  [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinrich Timm (1811 - 1892), "Die schlanke Wasserlilie", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder) no. 2
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.

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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

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
1. The slender waterlily
Language: English 
The slender waterlily
Gazed dreaming up out of the lake.
The moon greeted her from above
With bright love plaints.

Shyly she lowers her little head
Down to the waters again --
There she sees at her feet
That poor pale fellow.

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2. Wiegenlied  [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinrich Timm (1811 - 1892), "Wiegenlied", op. 1 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Zechlin
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Und was seh ich denn da oben im Himmel 
in einem großem blauen Saal?  
O viele viele weiße Englein. 
Ja und was machen die denn da?  

Die einen putzen den Mond blank, 
die andern putzen die Sternlein, 
daß sie heut nacht schön blinkblank 
in mei'm Kindle sein' Traum schein'.

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Confirmed with Emil Alfred Herrmann, Gedichte, Heidelberg: Otto Petters, 1902, page 17.


by Emil Alfred Herrmann (1871 - 1957)
2.
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