English translations of Sechs Lieder, opus 8
by Eduard Franck (1817 - 1893)
Du bist wie eine [Blume]1 [So hold und schön und rein;]2 Ich [schau']3 dich an, und Wehmut Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein. Mir ist, als [ob ich]4 die Hände Aufs Haupt [dir]5 legen sollt', [Betend]6, daß [Gott dich]7 erhalte [So rein und schön und hold]8.
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- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 47, first published 1825
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View text without footnotesConfirmed 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 136.
1 Hamma: "Blüthe"2 Ander: "So schön, so rein und hold"; Chadwick: "So schön, so hold, so rein"; Mayer: "So hold, so schön und rein"; Becker, Thuille: "So hold, so schön, so rein"; Unger: "So rein so schön und hold"; Schleinizt: "So schön und hold und rein"
3 Becker: "seh'"
4 Hinrichs: "ob"
5 Hinrichs: "ich dir"
6 Dreyschock: "und beten"
7 Liszt: "dich Gott"
8 Ander: "So hold und schön und rein"; Chadwick, Thuille: "So schön, so hold, so rein"; Mayer: "So rein, so schön und hold"; Becker: "So rein, so schön, so hold"
Thou art, as is a flower, so meek and pure and fine, I look at thee and sadness steals o'er the heart of mine. I feel that both my hands softly thy hair, thy head should seek, praying that God may preserve thee so pure and fine and meek.
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Gekommen ist der [Maye]1, Die Blumen und Bäume blühn, Und durch [die Himmelsbläue]2 Die [rosigen]3 Wolken ziehn. Die [Nachtigallen]4 singen Herab aus [der laubigen]5 Höh, Die weißen Lämmer springen Im weichen grünen Klee. [Ich kann nicht singen und springen]6, Ich liege krank im Gras; Ich höre fernes Klingen, Mir träumt, ich weiß nicht was.
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Heinrich Heine, Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke, herausgegeben von Manfred Windfuhr, Band 2, Neue Gedichte, bearbeitet von Elisabeth Genton, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1983, pages 13-14.
1 Curschmann, Marek: "Maie"2 Franz: "des Himmels Bläue"
3 Curschmann: "ros'gen"
4 Curschmann: "lust'gen Vöglein"
5 Curschmann: "luftiger"
6 Curschmann: "Doch ich kann nicht springen und singen"
May has come, The flowers and the trees blossom, And through the blue of heaven The rosy clouds travel. The nightingales are singing Down from the leafy heights, The white lambs are leaping about In the soft green clover. I cannot sing and leap, Ill I lie in the grass; I hear a distant ringing, I am dreaming I know not what.
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Translations of title(s):
"Neuer Frühling" = "New spring"
"Mailied" = "May-song"
"Zum ersten Mai" = "For the first of May"
"Frühlingsankunft" = "Spring's arrival"
"Ungestillte Sehnsucht" = "Unassuaged yearning"
"Im Mai" = "In May"
"Duett" = "Duet"
"Der Mai" = "May"
"Frühlingslied" = "Spring song"
"Gekommen ist der Maie" = "May has come"
"Der neue Frühling" = "The new spring"
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