LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,109)
  • Text Authors (19,482)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831)

Hast du's in meinem Auge nicht gelesen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Hast [du's]1 in meinem Auge nicht gelesen
Was ungestüm dein Mund seit gestern fragt?
Ich [ahn']2 in dir das gleichgeschaffne Wesen,
Und meines Daseins öde Dämmrung tagt;
In dunkler Wolke webt mit leiser Hand
Die Sympathie geheimnißvoll ihr Band.

Empfang', Ersehnter, diese [Freudenzähre]3
Zum Dank, daß du den Himmel mir enthüllt!
Der Erd' entführt ins Thal der Schattenchöre
Einst Psyche nur [allein dein holdes]4 Bild;
So rettete von Tauris wildem Strand
Sein Heiligtum Orest ins beßre Land.

Du, den ich kühn aus Tausenden erwähle,
O Schöpfer hoffnungsvoller Blüthenzeit!
In diesem Kuß nimm meine ganze Seele,
In diesem Ring, das Pfand der Ewigkeit;
Am Sternenhimmel flammt das heil'ge Wort:
Der Geister Einklang tönt unendlich fort.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   S. Westenholz 

About the headline (FAQ)

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich von Matthisson, Fünfzehnte Auflage, Zürich: bei Orell, Füßli und Comp., 1851, pages 213-214, in the section "Zweiter Zeitraum. 1787-1793."

1 Danzi: "du"
2 Westenholz: "ahnd'"
3 Westenholz: "Freudenzähren"
4 Danzi: "dein liebes, holdes"

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831), "Der Bund", subtitle: "Sie an ihn", appears in In der Fremde (Schweiz und Frankreich) (1787-1794) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ludwig Abeille (1761 - 1838), "Der Bund. Sie an Ihn" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Elegien von F. v. Matthisson für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857), "Der Bund", 1811 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826), "Hast du in meinem Auge nicht gelesen", op. 70 (Sechs deutsche Lieder) no. 5, P 188 no. 5, published 1824 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817), "Der Bund ", StWV 64 no. 2, published [1812] [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Gesänge mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte, 12te Sammlung, no. 2, B. Schott in Mainz, No. 629 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759 - 1838), "Der Bund", subtitle: "Sie an Ihn", op. 4 (Zwölf deutsche Lieder mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte) no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The bond", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "L'union", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 118

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris