English translations of Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte, opus 10

by Franz Mikorey (1873 - 1947)

1. Andenken  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Mikorey (1873 - 1947), "Andenken", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], München: Schmid Nachf.
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ich denke dein,
[Wenn]1 durch den Hain
Der Nachtigallen
[Akkorde]2 schallen!
[Wann]3 denkst du mein?

Ich denke dein
Im Dämmerschein
Der Abendhelle
Am Schattenquelle!
Wo denkst du mein?

Ich denke dein
Mit süßer Pein,
Mit bangem Sehnen
[Und]4 heißen Thränen!
Wie denkst du mein?

[O denke mein,]5
Bis zum Verein
Auf besserm Sterne!
In jeder Ferne
Denk' ich nur dein!

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich von Matthisson. Erster Theil. Tübingen, bei Cotta, 1811, pages 276-277, and with Friedrich von Matthisson, Gedichte, fifteenth edition, Zurich: Orell, Fuessli & Co., 1851, pages 217-218.

First published in Flora Teutschlands Töchtern geweiht von Freunden und Freundinnen des schönen Geschlechts. Erstes Vierteljahr. Tübingen, 1802. In der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, pages 3-4.

1 Matthisson (editions until 1803): "Wann"
2 Lang (both settings): "Accorde"
3 Matthisson (editions after 1803): "Wenn"
4 Lang (c1835 setting): "Mit"
5 Lang (c1835 setting), Matthisson (Flora 1802): "Ich denke dein"

by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831)
1. Remembrance
Language: English 
I think of you
When through the grove
The nightingales
Sing out their chords!
When do you think of me?

I think of you
At the twilight
Of evening
By the shadowy spring!
Where do you think of me?

I think of you
With sweet pain,
With anxious longing
And hot tears!
How do you think of me?

O think of me
Until our union
On a better star!
However distant I may be
I think only of you!

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2. Blühender Mohn  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Mikorey (1873 - 1947), "Blühender Mohn", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], München: Schmid Nachf.
Language: German (Deutsch) 
  Laue, linde
  Sommerwinde,
Wiegt mein Mohnfeld leicht und leis,
  Daß die blanken
  Blüten schwanken,
Rosenrot und lilienweiß!

  Junisonne,
  Sommerwonne
Stehn auf ihrer Höhe schon,
  Deiner Fahnen
  Leises Mahnen,
Wohl vernehm ich's, bunter Mohn!

  Sinnend steh ich,
  Träumend seh' ich
Weit ins Land vom Wiesensaum:
  Winde weben,
  Blüten beben
-- Und das Leben ist ein Traum. --

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Confirmed with Unter dem Abendstern. Gedichte von Karl Gerok, Sechste vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart: Druck und Verlag von Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1889, page 35.


by Karl Friedrich von Gerok (1815 - 1890)
2. Blooming poppies
Language: English 
  Warm, gentle
  Summer winds,
Rock my field of poppies lightly and quietly,
  So that the shining
  Blooms sway,
Rose-red and lily-white!

  June sun,
  Bliss of summer
Are already at their zenith,
  Your flags’
  Quiet admonishing,
I perceive it well, colourful poppies!

  I stand pondering,
  Dreamily I gaze
Far into the countryside from the border of the meadow:
  Winds weave,
  Blossoms tremble
-- And life is a dream. --

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3. Abendgang  [sung text not yet checked]

Subtitle: (Im März)

by Franz Mikorey (1873 - 1947), "Abendgang", subtitle: "(Im März)", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], München: Schmid Nachf.
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Es war ein grauer Tag im März,
Das Licht verglomm im Walde;
Ich zog vom Waldhang niederwärts,
Kahl waren Baum und Halde. 

Doch tief bis in die Dämmerung
Hört' ich die Drossel schlagen,
So lenzfroh und so maienjung --
Entgegen bessren Tagen.

Es war ein grauer Tag im März --
Doch nie hat mich [getroffen]1
Des Sommers Pracht so tief ins Herz! --
Zieh hin -- und lerne hoffen!

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Confirmed with Karl Stieler, Neue Hochlandslieder, herausgegeben von Karl Quenzel, Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, [1917], page 43.

1 Schweikert: "betroffen"

by Karl Stieler (1842 - 1885)
3. Evening walk
Language: English 
It was a grey day in March,
The light was dying away in the forest;
I travelled downward from the forest slope,
Bare were the trees and hills.

But deep into the twilight
I heard the thrush warbling,
As joyful as spring and as young as May --
[Warbling] toward better days.

It was a grey day in March --
But never has the glory of summer
Struck me so deeply in the heart! --
Travel forth -- and learn to hope!

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Subtitle: "In March"

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"Es war ein grauer Tag im März" = "It was a grey day in March"
"Abendgang" = "Evening walk"



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4. Juchhe!  [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Mikorey (1873 - 1947), "Juchhe!", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], München: Schmid Nachf.
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Wie ist doch die Erde [so schön, so schön]1!
Das wissen die Vögelein:
Sie heben ihr leicht' Gefieder,
Und [singen so fröhliche]2 Lieder
In den blauen Himmel hinein.

Wie ist doch die Erde [so schön, so schön]1!
Das wissen die Flüss' und [die Seen]3:
Sie [malen]4 im klaren Spiegel
Die Gärten [und Städt' und]5 Hügel,
Und die [Wolken]6, die drüber [geh'n]7!

[Und Sänger und Maler wissen es,]8
Und [Kinder und and're]9 Leut'!
Und [wer's]10 nicht malt, der singt es,
Und [wer's]10 nicht singt, dem klingt es
[In dem Herzen vor]11 lauter Freud'!

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Confirmed with Robert Reinick's Märchen-, Lieder- und Geschichtenbuch, Bielefeld und Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1873, page 138.

1 Messer: "so schön"
2 Stöckhardt: "singen fröhliche"
3 Blech, Brahms, Le Beau, Marschner, Messer, Reger, Reinecke: "Seen"
4 Blech: "malen's"
5 Reger: "und"; Reinecke: "und Städte und"
6 Blech: "weißen Wolken"
7 Reinecke: "zieh'n"
8 Reinecke: "Wie ist doch die Erde so schön, so schön!"
9 Brahms, Le Beau, Marschner, Messer: "es wissen's viel and're"; Reger, Stöckhardt: "es wissen's viel andere"; Reinecke: "wissen's viel and're"
10 Blech, Reinecke: "wer es"
11 Blech, Brahms, Reinecke: "Im Herzen vor"; Reger, Stöckhardt: "Im Herzen voll"

by Robert Reinick (1805 - 1852)
4. How beautiful the earth is!
Language: English 
 How beautiful, how beautiful the earth is!
 The little birds know that;
 They lift their airy feathers
 And sing such joyous songs,
 And sing unto the blue heavens.

 How beautiful, how beatiful the earth is!
 The rivers and lakes know this;
 They paint in their clear mirrors
 The gardens and cities and hills,
 And the clouds that drift above!

 And singers and painters know it,
 And so do many other folk;
 And he who does not paint it, sings it,
 And he who does not sing it,
 His heart rings with it in sheer joy!

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  • by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "How beautiful the earth is!", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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