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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Gekommen ist der Maye

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Gekommen ist der Maye,
Die Blumen und Bäume blühn,
Und durch die Himmelsbläue
Die rosigen Wolken ziehn.

Die Nachtigallen singen
Herab aus der laubigen Höh,
Die weißen Lämmer springen
Im weichen grünen Klee.

Ich kann nicht singen und springen,
Ich liege krank im Gras;
Ich höre fernes Klingen,
Mir träumt, ich weiß nicht was.

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• F. Curschmann • R. Franz • C. Marek

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke, herausgegeben von Manfred Windfuhr, Band 2, Neue Gedichte, bearbeitet von Elisabeth Genton, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1983, pages 13-14.

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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May has come

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

May has come,
The flowers and the trees blossom,
And through the blue of heaven
The rosy clouds travel.

The nightingales are singing
Down from the leafy heights,
The white lambs are leaping about
In the soft green clover.

I cannot sing and leap,
Ill I lie in the grass;
I hear a distant ringing,
I am dreaming I know not what.

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Translations of title(s):
"Neuer Frühling" = "New spring"
"Mailied" = "May-song"
"Zum ersten Mai" = "For the first of May"
"Frühlingsankunft" = "Spring's arrival"
"Ungestillte Sehnsucht" = "Unassuaged yearning"
"Im Mai" = "In May"
"Duett" = "Duet"
"Der Mai" = "May"
"Frühlingslied" = "Spring song"
"Gekommen ist der Maie" = "May has come"
"Der neue Frühling" = "The new spring"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822
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