To the Distant One | I pick this rose here

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by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Diese Rose pflück' ich hier

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Diese Rose pflück' ich hier
In der fremden Ferne,
Liebes Mädchen, dir, ach dir,
Brächt' ich sie so gerne!

Doch bis ich zu dir mag ziehn
Viele weite Meilen,
Ist die Rose längst dahin;
Denn die Rosen eilen.

Nie soll weiter sich in's Land
Lieb' von Liebe wagen,
Als sich blühend in der Hand
Läßt die Rose tragen;

Oder als die Nachtigall
Halme bringt zum Neste,
Oder als ihr süßer Schall
Wandert mit dem Weste.

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Confirmed with Nicolaus Lenau’s sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von G. Emil Barthel, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., [no year], page 173.

Text Authorship:

by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Viertes Buch, in Liebesklänge, in An die Entfernte, no. 1 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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To the Distant One

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I pick this rose here
In the unknown distance.
Dear maiden, to you, ah to you
I would bring it so gladly!

But by the time I could travel to you
Many distant miles,
The rose would long be wilted;
For roses hasten to die.

Never should lovers venture
Farther from each other
Than a blooming rose may be
Carried in a person's hand without wilting;

Or farther than the nightingale
Brings straws to its nest,
Or farther than the nightingale's sweet sounds
Are carried by the west wind.

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Translated titles:
An die Entfernte = To the distant one
An die Entfernte I = To the distant one I
Der Entfernten = To the distant one
Diese Rose pflück' ich hier = I pick this rose here
Mit einer Rose = With a rose

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Nikolaus Lenau (1802 - 1850), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 4. Viertes Buch, in Liebesklänge, in An die Entfernte, no. 1
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This text was added to the website: 2006-12-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 93