Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege | When on my couch reclining

Translation by Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887)

Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege

Language: German (Deutsch)

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Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege
In Nacht und Kissen gehüllt,
So schwebt mir vor ein süßes,
Anmutig liebes Bild!

Wenn mir der stille Schlummer
Geschlossen die Augen kaum,
So schleicht das Bild sich leise
Hinein in meinen Traum

Doch mit dem Traum des Morgens
Zerrinnt es nimmermehr;
Dann trag' ich es im Herzen
Den ganzen Tag umher.

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• J. Lang • F. Mendelssohn

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine's Sämmtliche Werke, Erster Band: Reisebilder, Dritte Auflage, Philadelphia: Verlag von John Weik, 1856, pages 29-30.

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 49 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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When on my couch reclining

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

When on my couch reclining,
   Buried in pillows and night,
There hovers then before me
   A form of grace and light.

As soon as quiet slumber
   Has closed my weary eyes,
Then softly does the image
   Within my dream arise.

But with my dream at morning,
   It never fades away;
For in my heart I hear it
   Through all the livelong day.

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by Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887), "Wenn ich auf dem Lager liege", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 109, first published 1887 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 49
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Word count: 63