Do I sometimes think of you?

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by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs, Harald Krebs

Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke?

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke?
Wüßtest Du, wie sehr ich's thu',
Dir auch noch die Schatten lenke
Träumender Gedanken zu!
 
Tag und Nacht, und alle Stunden,--
O das Alles sagt es nicht;
Du, seitdem wir uns gefunden,
Bist's allein, was aus mir spricht.
 
Alles Andre seh' ich schweben
Um mich her wie Traum und Schein.
Dein zu denken ist mein Leben,
Dich zu lieben ist mein Sein.

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• G. Jenner • J. Lang

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Confirmed with Christian Reinhold Köstlin’s poetry manuscripts, Z 4131, poem 31, Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach, Germany.

Note: in Jenner's song, in stanza 3, line 2, word 4 ("wie") becomes "in" in the repetition. Note: in Lang's first edition (1848), in stanza 1, line 3, word 6 ("lenke") was "lenken" and stanza 3, line 1, word 5 was "schwanken". These were corrected in the 2008 edition.

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by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), no title, subtitle: "9. März", written 1841 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Do I sometimes think of you?

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Do I sometimes think of you?
If you only knew how much!
Draw unto yourself even the shadows
Of my dreaming thoughts!
 
Day and night, and at all hours,
Oh all those words do not express it;
You alone, since we found each other,
Are the substance of my utterances.
 
I see everything else wafting
About me like dreams and illusions!
To think of you is my very life!
To love you is my existence.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Reinhold (1813 - 1856), no title, subtitle: "9. März", written 1841
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This text was added to the website: 2006-12-13
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