Wie Feld und Au So blinkend im Thau! Wie Perlen-schwer Die Pflanzen umher! [Wie durch den Hain Die Lüfte so rein!]1 Wie laut, im hellen Sonnenstrahl, Die süßen Vöglein allzumahl! Ach! aber da, Wo Liebchen ich sah, Im Kämmerlein, So nieder und klein, So rings bedeckt, Der Sonne versteckt -- Wo blieb die Erde weit und breit Mit aller ihrer Herrlichkeit?
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- sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- by Johann Georg Jacobi (1740 - 1814), "Der Sommer-Tag"
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Geschichte der deutschen Literatur mit ausgewählten Stücken aus den Werken der vorzüglichsten Schriftsteller von Heinrich Kurz, Zweiter Band, Fünfte Auflage, Leipzig, Druck und Verlag von B. G. Teubner, pages 544-545.
Modern German would change the following spellings: "Thau" -> "Tau", "allzumahl" -> "allzumal"
Note: Goethe mistakenly included this poem in his works in 1815. Several composers therefore attributed it erroneously to him (including Wolf and Franz). Referenced in Max Friedlaender's Das deutsche Lied im 18. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1902, reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1962.
1 Franz, Hauptmann, Nägeli, Felix Mendelssohn: "Wie durch's Gebüsch / Die Winde so frisch!"Like field and meadow Gleaming in the dew! Heavy as pearls Are the plants around! And through the bushes The wind is so fresh! And loud in the bright sunbeam Are the sweet small birds! Oh, but there Where my sweetheart I saw In the little chamber So lowly and small Thus covered round about Hidden from the sun Where the earth remained far and broad With all of its splendor!
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Hoch auf dem alten Thurme steht Des Helden edler Geist, Der, wie das Schiff vorübergeht, Es wohl zu fahren heißt. "Sieh, diese Senne war so stark, Dieß Herz so fest und wild, Die Knochen voll von Rittermark, Der Becher angefüllt; "Mein halbes Leben stürmt' ich fort, Verdehnt' die Hälft' in Ruh, Und du, du Menschen-Schifflein dort, Fahr' immer, immer zu!"
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- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Geistes-Gruß", written 1774, first published 1789
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High up on the ancient tower stands The hero's noble ghost, Which, whenever a boat passes by, Bids it a fair journey. "Behold, this muscle was once strong, This heart so firm and savage, These bones full of a Knight's marrow, The cup overflowing; "Half my life I stormed forth, I spent the other half in peace; And you, you little man-made boat, Journey ever, ever forth!"
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Zwischen Weizen und Korn, Zwischen Hecken und Dorn, Zwischen Bäumen und Gras, Wo gehts Liebchen? Sag mir das. Fand mein Holdchen Nicht daheim; Muß das Goldchen Draußen sein. Grünt und blühet Schön der Mai; Liebchen ziehet Froh und frei. An dem Felsen beim Fluß, Wo sie reichte den Kuß, Jenen ersten im Gras, Seh' ich etwas! Ist sie das? --
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- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Mailied", written 1812?
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Between wheat and corn, Between thicket and thorn, Between trees and grass, Where has my sweetheart gone? Tell me. I did not find my darling At home. My treasure Must be outside. May is blooming Green and fair - My love must be wandering, Happy and free. At the cliffs by the river, where she bestowed the kiss, that first one in the grass - Do I see something? Is it she?
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"Mailied" = "May song"
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