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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Willst du mich sogleich verlassen?
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Willst du mich [sogleich]1 verlassen?
Warst im Augenblick so nah!
Dich umfinstern Wolkenmassen
Und nun bist du gar nicht da.

Doch du [fühlst]2, wie ich betrübt bin,
Blickt dein Rand herauf als Stern!
Zeugest mir, daß ich geliebt bin,
Sei das Liebchen noch so fern.

So hinan denn! hell und heller,
Reiner Bahn, in voller Pracht!
Schlägt mein Herz auch schmerzlich schneller,
Überselig ist die Nacht.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Stöhr 

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Confirmed with Goethes Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe, letzter Hand, Sieben und vierzigster Band, (Volume 47), Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1833, page 66.

Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".

1 Stöhr: "so bald"
2 Stöhr: "siehst"

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", written 1828 [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 Henk Bijvanck (1909 - 1969), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", from 4 Goethe-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Dem aufgehende Vollmonde", op. 5 (Sieben Goethe-Lieder) no. 2 (1992-3) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", op. 32 (Lieder und Gesänge von Goethe) no. 5, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Dem aufgehenden Mond", op. 38 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 (1903) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eusebius Mandyczewski (1857 - 1929), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", op. 3 no. 1, published 1885 [ mezzo-soprano, violin, and piano ], Wien, Rebay & Robitschek [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus (1827 - 1896), "An den aufgehenden Vollmond", op. 18 ([Neun] Lieder und Gesänge von Göthe), Heft 1 no. 4, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", op. 21 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Wien (Vienna): Schuberthaus-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", op. 51 no. 2, published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 66

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