An dies Schifflein schmiege
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE
An dies Schifflein schmiege,
Holder See, dich sacht!
Frommer Liebe Wiege,
Nimm sie wohl in Acht!
Deine Wellen rauschen;
Rede nicht so laut!
Laß mich ihr nur lauschen,
Die mir viel vertraut!
Deine Wellen leuchten,
Spiegeln uns zurück
Tausendfach die feuchten
Augen voller Glück.
Deine Wellen zittern
Von der Sonne Glut;
Ob sie's heimlich wittern,
Wie die Liebe tut?
Weit und weiter immer
Rück den Strand hinaus!
Aus dem Himmel nimmer
Laß uns steigen aus!
Fern von Menschenreden
Und von Menschensinn,
Als ein schwimmend Eden
Trag dies Schifflein hin!
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• J. Brahms • J. Lang J. Brahms sets stanzas 1-2, 4-6
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Confirmed with Gedichte von C. Reinhold, Stuttgart: C. Mäcken, Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1853, pages 41-42.
First published in the periodical Morgenblatt, November 9, 1840 (No. 268).
Note to Lang's setting: Lang was working a text that Köstlin had copied out for her (Christian Reinhold Köstlin’s poetry manuscripts, Cod.hist. 4º 437, Fasz. 10a Nr. 1, poem [23], Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, Germany); in that copy the poem began with "Um." With the exception of "rauschen" in stanza 3 (which was Lang's error) all the other differences are also from that poetry manuscript.
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Nestle up to this little boat
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Nestle up to this little boat
Gently, lovely lake!
It is the cradle of devout love,
Guard it carefully!
Your waves are rushing;
Do not speak so loudly!
Let me listen only to her
Who entrusts many things to me!
Your waves gleam,
A thousand-fold they reflect
Back to us our moist
Eyes full of happiness.
Your waves tremble
Because of the blazing of the sun;
Do they secretly sense
How love behaves?
Far and ever farther
Move away from the shore!
Let us never disembark
From this heaven!
Far from the gossip of people
And from their ponderings,
Carry this little boat away
Like a floating Eden!
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Translations of title(s):
"An den See" = "To the lake"
"Auf dem See" = "Upon the lake"
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