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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Sie liebt mich!
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Erwin
 Sie liebt mich!
 Sie liebt mich!1
 Welch schreckliches Beben! 
 Fühl' ich mich selber?
 Bin ich am Leben? 
 Sie [liebt]2 mich!
 Sie liebt mich!3

 Ach, rings so anders! 
 Bist du's noch, Sonne?
 Bist du's noch, Hütte? 
 Trage die Wonne,
 Seliges Herz! 
 Sie liebt mich!
 Sie liebt mich!1

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Lang •   N. Medtner 

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke nach den vorzüglichsten Quellen revidirte Ausgabe, Dritter Theil, Gedichte, herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Dr. Fr. Strehlke, Berlin, Gustav Hempel, 1868, pages 77-78.

Note: in some versions of the Goethe poem, "Ha!" appears at the beginning of several lines.

Note: a typo appears in Vermeulen's edition, in stanza 2, line 4, word 1 ("Frage").

1 Lang: "Sie liebt mich, sie liebt mich, ja sie liebt mich"
2 Lang and Medtner: "liebet"
3 Lang adds here:
Ach, kann die Seele dich denn erfassen,
Glück ohne Name kann ich dich lassen!
Einmal erwacht, einmal erwacht! Glück ohne Name! 
Sie liebt mich, sie liebt mich, ja! sie liebt mich!

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Erwin und Elmire, first published 1775 [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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Sie liebt mich", op. 33[34] (Disteln und Dornen), Heft 2 no. 4 (1840), published 1840 [ voice and piano ], Europa, Chronik der gebildeten Welt, Heft 22 (1840); Hamburg: G.W. Niemeyer [1869] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951), "Aus Erwin und Elmire", op. 15 no. 4, from 12 Goethe-Lieder, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Aus Erwin und Elmire", op. 25 no. 16, published 1919 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Adrianus Catharinus Gerardus Vermeulen (1798 - 1872), "Sie liebt mich" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "She loves me", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 46

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