English translations of 3 Lieder, opus 42

Welcome my wood,
Green-shaded house!
Through the treetops already echoes
To me your greeting rustle.
How I drink myself
fresh and healthy gulps
Here I breathe contentment
From the bottom of my heart.

To the grassy slope,
Ascending from the valley,
Soars the bell’s ringing
And the evening’s ray.
And it rustles in the oak’s
High-striving tree,
In the green domains
A dream-song.

The flowers join
On the lawn and moss,
Deep I see the world
And heaven so great!
And I dream in silence
Of shady rest,
Of heaven my own,
Of earth also!

What wakens from out of the depths,
What wakens upon the heights,
To bright sounding,
The songs that were sleeping?
That was a struggle,
A storming in the night!
Now the pinions rest,
[The turmoil is] becalmed.
Now working and weaving
With a sunny scent,
Are blue, blissful violet-filled breezes!

Now open the shutters,
You dreaming child,
Quickly to bathe
Your soul in bliss!
Out, you my life,
And open your bosom
To a loving striving,
To a blossoming joy!
Let surge in your heart
With a sunny scent
Blue, blissful violet-filled breezes!

O were I on the Neckar, O were I on the Rhine,
In the blooming land of vineyards would I like to be!
Where life is a gushing goblet of joy,
Where I wander and abide near my friend's heart;
On the Neckar, the Rhine, in blooming land of 
vineyards, Yes, there would I like to be!

Your villages, the maidens on your banks,
You, my heart's joy, you, my heart's comfort,
The ringing, singing swells of the Rhine,
The breezes of life, the smell of the wine!
Through my jubilant breast, my jubilant breast,
All of life and delight comes to me.

Let me travel and sing throughout the world,
Let me stay and dwell wherever it pleases me,
Then - I return to the Neckar, I return to the Rhine,
From valleys to mountain, to valleys again,
Brightly shout it abroad, brightly shout it abroad,
Where my heart and song are, there is my home!