LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,847)
  • Text Authors (20,839)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,129)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

English translations of Sechs Quartette für Männerstimmen, opus 262

by Heinrich Lichner (1829 - 1898)

1. Immer, immer sing' ich's wieder  [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinrich Lichner (1829 - 1898), "Immer, immer sing' ich's wieder", op. 262, Heft 1 no. 2 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig: C. F. W. Siegel's Musikalienhandlung
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Immer, immer sing' ich's wieder, 
Sage dir [ich's]1 fort und fort, 
Und doch sagen's alle Lieder 
Nie genug, das eine Wort: 
  Ach, wie lieb', wie lieb' ich dich, 
  Holder Schatz, herzinniglich! 

Wo ich geh' und wo ich stehe, 
Morgens früh und Abends spät, 
Jede Stund', in Wohl und Wehe, 
Klingt's als wie ein heiß Gebet: 
  Ach, wie lieb', wie lieb' ich dich, 
  Mehr und mehr, herzinniglich!  

Bin ich nah dir, bin ich ferne, 
Sing' ich's ohne Rast und Ruh, 
Und wie hörest du's so gerne, 
Lächelst du so mild dazu: 
  Ach, wie lieb', wie lieb' ich dich, 
  Bis zum Tod, herzinniglich!

Weh! und hörtest du's auch nimmer, 
Trügen's leer die Winde fort, 
Säng' ich's inniger nur immer 
Tag und Nacht das eine Wort! 
  Ach, wie lieb', wie lieb' ich dich 
  Hier und dort herzinniglich!

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Immer, immer sing' ich's wieder!", appears in Liederbuch, in 2. Liebeslieder, no. 230

See other settings of this text.

View text without footnotes

Confirmed with Liederbuch von Friedrich Oser, 1842-1874. Mit einem biographischen Verzeichnis der Componisten, Basel: Benno Schwabe, Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1875, pages 203-204.

1 Müller: "es"

by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891)
1. I sing it ever, ever again
Language: English 
I sing it ever, ever again,
I tell it to you on and on,
And yet all the songs do not
Say it enough, that one word:
  Ah, how dearly, how dearly, darling treasure,
  I love you with all my heart!

Wherever I go and wherever I tarry,
Early in the morning or late in the evening,
Every hour, in weal and woe,
It resounds like a fervent prayer:
  Ah, how dearly, how dearly I love you,
  More and more, with all my heart!

When I am near you, when I am far away,
I sing it ceaselessly,
And how gladly you hear it,
[How] you smile so gently the while:
  Ah, how dearly, how dearly I love you,
  Unto death, with all my heart!

Alas! and though you should hear it nevermore,
Should the winds carry off the hollow words,
I would only the more fervently sing
The one word day and night!
  Ah, how dearly, how dearly I love you,
  Here and yonder, with all my heart!

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2026 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
    Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Heinrich Oser (1820 - 1891), "Immer, immer sing' ich's wieder!", appears in Liederbuch, in 2. Liebeslieder, no. 230
    • Go to the text page.

Go to the general single-text view

Translations of titles:
"Ach, wie lieb' ich dich!" = "Ah, how I love you!"
"Immer, immer sing' ich's wieder" = "I sing it ever, ever again"
"Immer sing ich's wieder" = "I sing it ever again"



This text was added to the website: 2026-04-27
Line count: 24
Word count: 169

Translation © by Sharon Krebs
Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris