by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Translation by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858)
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon
Language: Scottish (Scots)
Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o' care! Thou'lt break my heart, thou warbling bird, That wantons thro' the flowering thorn: Thou minds me o' departed joys, Departed -- never to return! Aft hae I rov'd by bonnie Doon, To see the rose and woodbine twine; And ilka bird sang o' its luve, And fondly sae did I o' mine. Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose, Fu' sweet upon its thorny tree; And my fause luver stole the rose, But, ah! he left the thorn wi' me.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Songs and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical, by Allan Cunningham. Elegantly illustrated, Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1859, page 257.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "The Banks o' Doon", subtitle: "[Second version]" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Ihr Hügel dort am schönen Doon
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Language: German (Deutsch) after the Scottish (Scots)
Our translations: ENG
Ihr Hügel dort am schönen Doon, Wie könnt ihr nur so üppig blühn? Wie könnt ihr singen, Vögelein, Da Sorgen mir im Busen glühn? Vernehm' ich euren muntern Sang, Durchbebt es meine wunde Brust; Und flattert ihr durch grünes Laub, Denk' ich vergangner süßer Lust. An deinem Ufer streift' ich, Doon; Waldreb' und Rose freuten mich, Von Liebe sang das Vögelein, Von meiner Liebe sang auch ich. Und eine Rose, frisch erblüht In Lenzes Milde, pflückt' ich hier; Mein Liebster stahl das Röslein roth, Und ach! die Dornen ließ er mir.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Robert Burns' Gedichte von W. Gerhard, Leipzig, Verlag von Johann Ambr. Barth, 1841, page 191.
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858), "Am Ufer des Doon", page 191, poem No. 108, first published 1840 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Scottish (Scots) by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "The Banks o' Doon", subtitle: "[Second version]"
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This text was added to the website: 2009-09-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 95