English translations of Sechs Lieder für Männerchor, opus 2

by Gottlieb Voegely-Nünlist

1. Sängers Trost
 (Sung text)
by Gottlieb Voegely-Nünlist , "Sängers Trost", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für Männerchor) no. 6, published >>1870 [ TTBB chorus ]
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Weint auch einst kein Liebchen
Tränen auf mein Grab,
Träufeln doch die Blumen
Milden Tau hinab;

Weilt an ihm kein Wandrer
Im Vorüberlauf,
Blickt auf seiner Reise
Doch der Mond darauf.

Denkt auf diesen Fluren
Bald kein Erdner mein,
Denkt doch mein die Aue
Und der stille Hain.

Blumen, Hain und Aue,
Stern und Mondenlicht,
Die ich sang, vergessen
Ihres Sängers nicht.

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by Justinus (Andreas Christian) Kerner (1786 - 1862)
1. Singer's [Poet's] comfort
Language: English 
Even if someday no beloved
Weeps tears onto my grave,
The flowers still drop down
Their [gentle dew]1.

Even if no wanderer
Lingers there while passing by,
The moon during its journey
Looks down upon that place.

Even if on these fields
Soon no earthling remembers me,
The meadow and the quiet grove
Do remember me.

Flowers, grove, and meadow,
Star- and moonlight,
Of whom I once sang [in my poems],
Do not forget their singer [poet].

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1 Leberl: "dew for me"


This text was added to the website: 2006-11-21
Line count: 16
Word count: 79

Translation © by Sharon Krebs, Harald Krebs