Où que je sois l'obscurité m'entoure

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CHI DUT ENG FRE ITA

Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt
Finsterniß so dumpf und dicht,
Seit mir nicht mehr leuchtend funkelt,
Liebste, deiner Augen Licht.

Mir erloschen ist der süßen
Liebessterne goldne Pracht,
Abgrund gähnt zu meinen Füßen.
Nimm mich auf, uralte Nacht.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. Strauss

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 166.

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 63 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Go to the general view

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 40

Où que je sois l'obscurité m'entoure

NOTE: the footnotes have been removed from this text; return to general view

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Où que je sois l'obscurité m'entoure,
Ténèbres si sourdes et si épaisses,
Depuis que n'étincelle plus en moi,
Très chère, la lumière de tes yeux.

Elle s'est éteinte en moi, la splendeur dorée
De la douce étoile de l'amour,
Un précipice s'ouvre à mes pieds –
Saisis-moi nuit immémoriale.

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2016 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 63
- Go to the text page.

Go to the general view

This text was added to the website: 2016-12-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 50