I thought of you in the deep night

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875) and sometimes misattributed to Christian Hoeppl (1826 - 1862)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ich dachte dein in tiefer Nacht

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Persian (Farsi)

Our translations: ENG

  Ich dachte dein in tiefer Nacht;
Da leuchtete mit heller Macht,
Mit plötzlicher, die Finsterniß,
Und wurde klar, wie Morgenpracht.

  Zu jener Stunde hat gewiß,
Dein Auge, Liebchen, auch gewacht,
Zu jener Stunde hat gewiß,
In Liebe mein dein Herz gedacht.

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Confirmed with G. Fr. Daumer, Hafis. Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte. Nebst poetischen Zugaben aus verschiedenen Völkern und Ländern, Hamburg: Bei Hoffmann und Campe, 1846, page 31.

Note: in Deutsche Lyriker seit 1850. Mit literarhistorischer Einleitung und biographisch-kritischen Notizen von Dr. Emil Kneschke. Zweite verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage, Leipzig: Albert Fritsch, 1868, p. 248, this poem is titled "Liebesbegegnung" and incorrectly attributed to Christian Höppl (1826 - ?).

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Hafis, no. 51, first published 1846 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Christian Hoeppl (1826 - 1862)

Based on:

a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hafis (c1327 - 1390) [text unavailable]
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I thought of you in the deep night

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  I thought of you in the deep night,
Then suddenly with bright power, 
The darkness shone,
And became as clear as morning splendour.

  At that hour most certainly
Your eyes, darling, were also keeping watch;
At that hour most certainly 
Your heart lovingly thought of me.

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Translations of title(s):
"Der Mensch ist doch Nichts als Begehren sich zu fühlen im Andern" = "For a human is nothing but a yearning to one's self in another"
"Ich dachte dein" = "I thought of you"
"Ich dachte dein in stiller Nacht" = "I thought of you in the quiet night"
"Ich dachte dein in tiefer Nacht" = "I thought of you in the deep night"
"Liebesbegegnung" = "An encounter of love"
"Mirza Schaffy" = "Mirza Shafi"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Hafis, no. 51, first published 1846 and misattributed to Christian Hoeppl (1826 - 1862)
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Based on:

a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hafis (c1327 - 1390) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2024-08-22
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