LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,026)
  • Text Authors (19,309)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,112)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by (Friedrich) Emil Rittershaus (1834 - 1897)

Mit hellen Augen
 (Sung text for setting by R. Langgaard)
 See original
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Mit hellen Augen lachte ich
Und scherzt'  beim frohen Mahl;
Mit nassem Blick durchwachte ich
Die Nacht in stummer Qual.

Der guten Engel in der Brust
Hab' ich zu Grab gebracht!
Ich weiß nicht, ob ich ihn totgeweint,
Oder, ob ich ihn totgelacht!

Composition:

    Set to music by Rued Langgaard (1893 - 1952), "Mit hellen Augen", 1913 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by (Friedrich) Emil Rittershaus (1834 - 1897), "Mit hellen Augen"

Go to the general single-text view

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "With bright eyes", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2017-03-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris