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by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890)

Ich denke oft ans große Meer
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ich denke oft ans [große]1 Meer
Und hab' es nie geschaut;
Und hab' ihm doch so lange schon
Mein kleines [Leid]2 vertraut.
Das macht: ich kenn es besser,
Als mancher Seemann wohl,
Wie man in seine Tiefe
Mit Andacht schauen soll.

Und fern mir, wie die Meeresflut,
Geht deines Herzens Schlag,
Den innerlich in stiller Nacht
Ich lauschend hören mag.
Es ist dein Herz ein Spiegel
Von Erdduft überhaucht,
Darein Gott oft beschaulich
Und tief sein Auge taucht.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Kleffel 

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Confirmed with Jakob Baechtold, Gottfried Kellers Leben. Seine Briefe und Tagebücher, Erster Band: 1819-1850, Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1894, pages 443-444.

1 Kleffel, Weingartner: "blaue" ; further changes may exist for the Weingartner setting, not shown above.
2 Kleffel: "Lied"

Text Authorship:

  • by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), "An George Sand", written 1845 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Arno Kleffel (1840 - 1913), "Ich denke oft an's blaue Meer", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], in the collection Im Volkston: moderne Volkslieder komponiert für Die Woche, Druck und Verlag von August Scherl G.m.b.H. Berlin [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Ich denke oft an's blaue Meer", op. 27 no. 2, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte aus Gottfried Kellers Jugendzeit, no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel  [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Harry Joelson

This text was added to the website: 2012-02-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 78

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