English translations of Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, opus 2

by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922)

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1. Du feuchter Frühlingsabend  [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Du feuchter Frühlingsabend", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Du feuchter Frühlingsabend,
Wie hab' ich dich so gern --
Der [Himmel]1 wolkenverhangen,
Nur hier und da ein Stern.

[Wie]2 leiser Liebesodem
Hauchet [so lau]3 die Luft,
Es steigt aus allen [Thalen]4
Ein warmer Veilchenduft.

Ich möcht' ein Lied ersinnen,
Das diesem Abend [gleich]5;
Und kann den Klang nicht finden
So dunkel, mild und weich.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Emanuel Geibel, Neununddreißigste Auflage, Berlin, Verlag von Alexander Duncker, 1855, page 26.

1 Jensen, Reger, Végh: "Himmel ist"
2 Berg: "Ein"
3 omitted by Végh
4 Viardot-García: "Tälern"
5 Végh: "gleicht"

by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884)
1. You damp spring evening
Language: English 
 You damp spring evening,
 how much I enjoy you!
 The sky is hung with clouds,
 only here and there a star.
 
 A gentle breath of love
 blows as mild as the breeze,
 and from every valley rises
 a warm spring scent.
 
 I would like to devise a song
 equal to this evening,
 but I cannot find a chord
 as dark, mild and gentle.

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2. Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt  [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Weiß, was ich leide!
Allein und abgetrennt
Von aller Freude
[Seh]1 ich an's Firmament
Nach [jener]2 Seite.
[Ach, der]3 mich liebt [und kennt]4,
Ist in der Weite.
Es [schwindelt]5 mir, es brennt
Mein Eingeweide.
Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt
Weiß, was ich leide!

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Zweyter Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1827, page 118; and with Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Neunzehnter Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1828, page 67.

First published in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Ein Roman. Herausgegeben von Goethe. Zweyter Band. Berlin. Bei Johann Friedrich Unger. 1795, pages 265-266. The poem appears in Book 4, Chapter 11 of Goethe's novel.

1 Schubert (D. 310, first version): "Blick"
2 Lang: "jeder"
3 Goethe (only in the novel, not in editions of the poems): "Ach! der"; Zelter: "Ach, die"
4 omitted by Zeisl.
5 Goethe (only in editions of the novel later than 1815, not in editions of the poems): "schwindet"

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
2.
Language: English 
Only one who knows longing
Knows what I suffer!
Alone and cut off
From all joy,
I look into the firmament
In that direction.
Ah! he who loves and knows me
Is far away.
I am reeling,
My entrails are burning.
Only one who knows longing
Knows what I suffer!

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3. Im Wald im hellen Sonnenschein  [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Im Wald im hellen Sonnenschein", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Im Wald, im hellen Sonnenschein
Wenn alle Knospen springen,
[Da]1 mag ich gerne mittendrein
Eins singen.

Wie mir zu Muth in Leid und Lust,
Im Wachen und im Träumen,
Das stimm' ich an aus voller Brust
Den Bäumen.

Und sie verstehen mich gar fein,
Die Blätter alle lauschen,
Und fall'n am rechten Orte ein,
Mit Rauschen.

Und weiter [wandelt]2 Schall und Hall,
In Wipfeln, Fels und Büschen.
Hell schmettert auch Frau Nachtigall
Dazwischen.

Da fühlt die Brust am eignen Klang,
Sie darf sich was erkühnen --
O [frische Lust: Gesang! Gesang]3
Im Grünen!

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Emanuel Geibel. Erste wohlfeile Ausgabe, Nijmegen, AE. Timmerman, 1846, pages 74-75. Modern German would change the spelling "Muth" -> "Mut"

1 Hensel, Raff, Sahr, Thuille: "Dann"
2 Raff: "wandert"
3 Randhartinger, Thuille: "frische Luft: Gesang! Gesang"; Zöllner: "frischer, froher Lustgesang"

by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884)
3. In the forest, in bright sunshine
Language: English 
In the forest, in bright sunshine,
when all the buds spring up,
it is right in the middle of there that I like
to sing a song.

According to my mood, in sorrow and joy,
awake and in dreams,
I give it voice with full heart
to the trees.

And they understand me to the letter,
the leaves eavesdrop
and fall in at the right place,
with rustling.

And the sound and echo wander farther,
through the treetops, rocks, and bushes.
Miss Nightingale also blares away brightly
in the midst of it all.

Then, when the heart hears its own sound,
it feels it can do whatever it dares to,
oh what a lively pleasure, a song, a song
among the greenery.

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4. Erinnerung  [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Erinnerung", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger
Language: German (Deutsch) 
[Ich hört' ein Bächlein]1 rauschen
Wohl aus dem Felsenquell,
Hinab zum [Tale]2 rauschen
So frisch [und]3 wunderhell.

Ich weiß nicht, wie mir wurde,
Nicht, wer den Rath mir gab,
Ich mußte [gleich]4 hinunter
Mit meinem Wanderstab.

Hinunter und immer weiter,
Und immer dem Bache nach,
Und immer [frischer]5 rauschte,
Und immer heller der Bach.

Ist das denn meine Straße?
O Bächlein, [sprich]6, wohin?
Du hast mit deinem Rauschen
Mir ganz berauscht den Sinn.

Was sag ich denn [von]7 Rauschen?
Das kann kein Rauschen sein:
[Es singen wohl die Nixen]8
[Dort]9 unten ihren Reihn.

Laß singen, [Gesell]10, laß rauschen,
Und wandre fröhlich nach!
Es gehn ja Mühlenräder
In jedem klaren Bach.

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Confirmed with Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten. Herausgegeben von Wilhelm Müller. Erstes Bändchen. Zweite Auflage. Deßau 1826. Bei Christian Georg Ackermann, pages 8-9; and with Sieben und siebzig Gedichte aus den hinterlassenen Papieren eines reisenden Waldhornisten. Herausgegeben von Wilhelm Müller. Dessau, 1821. Bei Christian Georg Ackermann, pages 9-10.

First published in a slightly different version with the title Der Bach in Gaben der Milde. Viertes Bändchen. Mit Beiträgen von [...]. Für die Bücher-Verloosung "zum Vortheil hülfloser Krieger" herausgegeben von F. W. Gubitz. Berlin, 1818, page 215.

1 Lang: "Ein Bächlein hört' ich"
2 Berger: "Tal es"
3 Berger: "so"
4 Müller (1821 edition), Berger, Schubert: "auch"
5 Müller (1821 edition), and Schubert: "heller"
6 Berger: "sag'"
7 Schubert: "vom"
8 Berger: "Ob wohl die Nixen singen"
9 Berger: "Da"; Müller (1821 edition), Schubert: "Tief"
10 Berger: "G'sell"

by Wilhelm Müller (1794 - 1827)
4. Where to?
Language: English 
I hear a brooklet rushing
Right out of the rock's spring,
Down there to the valley it rushes,
So fresh and wondrously bright..

I know not, how I felt this,
Nor did I know who gave me advice;
I must go down
With my wanderer's staff.

Down and always farther,
And always the brook follows after;
And always rushing crisply,
And always bright is the brook.

Is this then my road?
O, brooklet, speak! where to?
You have with your rushing
Entirely intoxicated my senses.

But why do I speak of rushing?
That can't really be rushing:
Perhaps the water-nymphs
are singing rounds down there in the deep.

Let it sing, my friend, let it rush,
And wander joyously after!
Mill-wheels turn 
In each clear brook.

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5. Erster Verlust  [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Erster Verlust", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Ach wer bringt die schönen Tage,
Jene Tage der ersten Liebe,
Ach wer bringt nur eine Stunde
Jener holden Zeit zurück!

Einsam nähr' ich meine Wunde
Und mit stets erneuter Klage
Traur' ich [um's verlorne]1 Glück.

Ach, wer bringt die schönen Tage,
[Jene holde Zeit zurück!]2

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 63; and with Goethe's Schriften. Achter Band. Leipzig, bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1789, page 113.

First written 1785 by Goethe for his fragmentary Singspiel "Die ungleichen Hausgenossen" (Arie der Baronesse, Act II), with different stanzas 2 and 3.

1 Nägeli: "um verlornes"
2 Schubert: "Wer jene holde Zeit zurück!"; Medtner, Zelter: "Wer bringt die holde, süße, liebe Zeit zurück?"

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
5. First loss
Language: English 
Ah, who will bring back those beautiful days -
those days of first love?
Ah, who will bring back even just one hour
of that lovely time?

Lonely, I nourish my wound
and with constantly renewed laments,
I mourn my lost happiness.

Ah, who will bring back those beautiful days -
that lovely time?

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6. Am Flusse  [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl August Heymann-Rheineck (1854 - 1922), "Am Flusse", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Verfließet, vielgeliebte Lieder,
Zum Meere der Vergessenheit!
Kein [Knabe]1 sing' entzückt euch wieder,
Kein [Mädchen]2 in der Blütenzeit.

Ihr sanget nur [von]3 meiner Lieben;
Nun spricht sie meiner Treue Hohn.
Ihr wart ins Wasser eingeschrieben;
So fließt denn auch mit ihm davon.

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 68, and with Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1799, herausgegeben von Schiller. Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaischen Buchhandlung, page 231.

First published 1799 in Schiller's Musen-Almanach with the title "An meine Lieder" and with "Justus Amman" as the author's name.

1 Goethe's first edition: "Mädchen"
2 Goethe's first edition: "Jüngling"
3 Goethe's first edition: "zu"

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
6. By the river
Language: English 
Flow away, well-loved songs,
To the ocean of forgetfulness!
No lad will delightedly sing you again,
Nor any maiden in the time of blossoms.

You sang only of my love;
Now she speaks scornfully of my faith.
You were written in water;
So flow then with water away.

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