English translations of Five songs, opus 3

by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951)

1. When gazing in thine eyes
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "When gazing in thine eyes", op. 3 (Five songs) no. 1, published 1897 [ medium voice and piano ]
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When gazing in thine eyes
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by Julie Mathilde Lippmann (1864 - 1952)
2. Kommt Feins liebchen heut'?   [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Kommt Feins liebchen heut'? ", op. 3 (Five songs) no. 2, published 1897 [ medium voice and piano ], also set in English
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Morgens steh' ich auf und frage:
Kommt feins Liebchen heut?
Abends sink' ich hin und klage:
Aus blieb sie auch heut.
 
In der Nacht mit meinem Kummer
lieg' ich schlaflos, [wach]1;
träumend, wie im halben Schlummer,
[träumend wandle]2 ich bei Tag.

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1 Hecht, Schumann: "lieg ich wach"
2 Franz: "wandle"

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
2. Every morning I awake and ask
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 Every morning I awake and ask:
 Will my sweetheart come today?
 Every evening I sink down and lament:
 She stayed away again today.
 
 All night with my grief
 I lie sleepless, waking;
 dreaming, as if half asleep,
 dreaming, I pass the day.

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3. Comes my love today?
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Comes my love today?", op. 3 (Five songs) no. 2, published 1897 [ medium voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch)
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Comes my love today?
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4. Orpheus with his lute  [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Orpheus with his lute", op. 3 (Five songs) no. 5
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Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain-tops that freeze,
  Bow themselves, when he did sing:	
To his music, plants and flowers
Ever [sprung]1; as sun and showers
  There had made a lasting spring.

Everything that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
  Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art:
Killing care and grief of heart
  Fall asleep, or, hearing, die.

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Note: according to Miscellanies, Issues 3-4, published by the New Shakspere Society of Great Britain, "Shakspere wrote only 1168.5 of the 2822 lines of the play. The rest are Fletcher's." The song is part of the Fletcher portion of Henry VIII, and appears in Act III scene 1.

1 Greene: "rose"; Blitzstein: "sprang"

by John Fletcher (1579 - 1625) and sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)