A lovely floweret is blooming

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by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen
Auf unsrer grünen Au.
Sein Aug' ist wie der Himmel
So heiter und so blau.

Es weiß nicht viel zu reden
Und Alles, was es spricht,
Ist immer nur dasselbe,
Ist nur: Vergißmeinnicht.

Wenn ich zwei Äuglein sehe
So heiter und so blau,
So denk' ich an mein Blümchen
Auf unsrer grünen Au.

Da kann ich auch nicht reden
Und nur mein Herze spricht,
So bange nur, so leise,
Und nur: Vergißmeinnicht.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Neunte Auflage, Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1887, pages 15-16.

Text Authorship:

by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), "Vergißmeinnicht", written 1835, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in Kinderleben, in Kindheit [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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A lovely floweret is blooming

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

A lovely floweret is blooming
Upon our green meadow.
Its eye is as fair and as blue
As the sky.

It does not have much to say,
And everything it speaks
Is always ever the same,
Is only: forget me not.

When I see two little eyes
So bright and so blue,
Then I think of my floweret
Upon our green meadow.

Then I, too, cannot speak
And only my heart speaks,
So anxiously only, so softly,
And only: forget me not.

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Translations of title(s):
"Das Vergißmeinnicht" = "The forget-me-not"
"Das Vergissmeinnicht" = "The forget-me-not"
"Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen" = "A lovely floweret is blooming"
"Vergißmeinnicht" = "Forget-me-not"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), "Vergißmeinnicht", written 1835, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in Kinderleben, in Kindheit
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