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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Pyotr Isayevich Veinberg (1831 - 1908)

Mir träumte: traurig schaute der Mond
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
  Mir träumte: [traurig]1 [schaute]2 der Mond,
Und traurig schienen die Sterne;
Es trug mich zur Stadt, wo Liebchen wohnt,
Viel hundert Meilen ferne.

  Es hat mich zu ihrem Hause geführt,
Ich küßte die Steine der Treppe,
Die oft ihr kleiner Fuß berührt
Und ihres Kleides Schleppe.

  Die Nacht war lang, die Nacht war kalt,
Es waren so kalt die Steine;
Es [lugt']3 aus dem Fenster die blasse Gestalt,
Beleuchtet vom Mondenscheine!

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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 128.

1 Seligmann: "schaurig"
2 von Erlanger: "schien"
3 von Erlanger: "luch" ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 26

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

  • ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "J'étais en rêve: la lune avait un regard triste", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Jeroen Scholten , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 71

Мне снилось
 (Sung text for setting by B. Lyatoshynsky)
 See original
Language: Russian (Русский)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Мне снилось: печально светила луна,
И звёзды печально светили;
В тот город, в котором осталась она,
Я мчался за многие мили.

Примчался и каменный дома порог
Так пламенно стал целовать я —
Те камни, что милых касалися ног,
Касались краев её платья…

Темна, холодна была ночь; холодны
И камни немые порога…
В окне бледный образ при свете луны
Смотрел и печально, и строго.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky (1895 - 1968), "Мне снилось", op. 5 (П'ять романсів для баса та фп. = Пять романсов для баса и фп. ) no. 5, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], also set in Ukrainian (Українська)

Text Authorship:

  • by Pyotr Isayevich Veinberg (1831 - 1908), no title

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 26
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-10-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

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