English translations of Vier Quartetten für Männerstimmen, opus 68

by Heinrich Weidt (1824 - 1901)

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1. Das deutsche Vaterland
by Heinrich Weidt (1824 - 1901), "Das deutsche Vaterland", op. 68 (Vier Quartetten für Männerstimmen) no. 1, published 1879 [ vocal quartet of male voices ], Kassel, Voigt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Wohl schuf des lieben Gottes Hand
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2. Das Fräulein an der Himmelsthür
by Heinrich Weidt (1824 - 1901), "Das Fräulein an der Himmelsthür", op. 68 (Vier Quartetten für Männerstimmen) no. 2, published 1879 [ vocal quartet of male voices ], Kassel, Voigt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ein Fräulein stand vor der Himmelsthür
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by Ludwig Wiehl
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3. Ständchen  [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinrich Weidt (1824 - 1901), "Ständchen", op. 68 (Vier Quartetten für Männerstimmen) no. 3, published 1879 [ vocal quartet of male voices ], Kassel, Voigt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Die Sonne ist hinabgesunken,
Es geht der müde Tag zur Ruh';
Gekehrt nach innen schließt sich trunken
Der Blume holdes Auge zu.

Doch einen letzten Strahl der Sonne
Barg sie im tiefen Kelche sacht;
Der soll von Frühlingslust und Wonne
Ein Traum ihr sein in dunkler Nacht.

So blieb auch mir von sel'gen Stunden
Nur der Erinn'rung süßer Schmerz --
Du bist die Sonne, die entschwunden,
Die Blume ist mein dunkles Herz.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Georg Scherer, vierte, vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1894, page 78


by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909)
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Language: English 
The sun has gone down,
The weary day is going to rest;
Withdrawn into itself, the lovely eye
Of the flower closes, intoxicated.

But one last beam of the sun
It gently harboured deep within its calyx;
In the dark night, that [beam] is to be for it
A dream of the joy and bliss of spring.

Thus for me as well, all that remains of blissful hours
Is the sweet pain of memory --
You are the sun that has gone away,
The flower is my dark heart.

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Translations of title(s):
"Die Blume" = "The flower"
"Ständchen" = "Serenade"



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4. Weil' auf mir du dunkles Auge  [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinrich Weidt (1824 - 1901), "Weil' auf mir du dunkles Auge", op. 68 (Vier Quartetten für Männerstimmen) no. 4, published 1879 [ vocal quartet of male voices ], Kassel, Voigt
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Weil' auf mir, du dunkles Auge,
Übe deine ganze Macht,
Ernste, milde, [träumerische]1,
Unergründlich süße Nacht!

Nimm mit deinem Zauberdunkel
Diese Welt von hinnen mir,
Daß du über meinem Leben
Einsam schwebest für und für.

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Confirmed with Nicolaus Lenau's sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von G. Emil Barthel, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., [1883], page 11.

1 Bolko von Hochberg: "zauberische"; Sjögren: "träumereiche"

by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850)
4. Linger on me, dark eyes
Language: English 
Linger on me, dark eyes -
exert your entire power,
somber, mild, dream-like,
unfathomably sweet night.

With your magic darkness
take from me this world,
so that above my life
you alone will float forever and ever.

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