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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Willst du mich sogleich verlassen?
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Willst du mich sogleich verlassen?
Warst im Augenblick so nah!
Dich umfinstern Wolkenmassen
Und nun bist du gar nicht da.

Doch du fühlst, wie ich betrübt bin,
Blickt dein Rand herauf als Stern!
Zeugest mir, daß ich geliebt bin,
Sei das Liebchen noch so fern.

So hinan denn! hell und heller,
Reiner Bahn, in voller Pracht!
Schlägt mein Herz auch schmerzlich schneller,
Überselig ist die Nacht.

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Confirmed with Goethes Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe, letzter Hand, Sieben und vierzigster Band, (Volume 47), Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J. G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1833, page 66.

Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Dem aufgehenden Vollmonde", written 1828 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

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