by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Aleksei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Count (1817 - 1875)

Die schlanke Wasserlilie
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT CAT ENG ENG FRE ITA
  Die schlanke Wasserlilie
Schaut träumend empor aus dem See;
Da grüßt der Mond herunter
Mit lichtem Liebesweh.

  Verschämt senkt sie [das]1 Köpfchen
Wieder [hinab]2 zu den Welln --
Da sieht sie zu ihren Füßen
Den armen [blassen]3 Geselln.

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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 244

1 Pfitzner: "ihr"
2 Pfitzner: "zurück"
3 omitted by Pfitzner

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "L'esvelt nenúfar", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) , "The slender waterlily", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Quand l'élégante fleur de nénuphar", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Lo snello giglio d'acqua", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Lawrence Snyder , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

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Из вод подымая головку
 (Sung text for setting by N. Myaskovsky)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Из вод подымая головку,
Лилея в раздумье глядит.
С высот улыбаяся,
Месяц к ней тихой любовью горит.

Лилея стыдливо склонила
Головку на зеркало вод,
А он уж у ног её, бедный,
Трепещет и блеск свой лиёт.

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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

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