Why do you waken me in the dewy night

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by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Maientraum

(Sung text for setting by C. Hohfeld)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Was weckst du mich auf in der thauigen Nacht,
Du sehnsuchtflötende Nachtigall?
Nun ist mit deinem melodischen Schall
  Auch ein Widerhall 
  Vergangenen Glücks erwacht.

Wie heute schlugst du im Lindenbaum 
Ich herzte und küßte mein rosiges Kind;
Die Saiten der Liebe erbebten gelind
  Wie Harfen im Wind 
  O seliger Maientraum!

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

Composition:

Carl Hohfeld

Lieder und Gesänge

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879), "Sehnsucht", written 1870, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Vermischte Gedichte

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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2013-12-15
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Dream in May

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Hohfeld)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Why do you waken me in the dewy night,
You nightingale, fluting of yearning?
Now, with your melodious sound, 
  An echo, too,
  Of bygone happiness has wakened.

Today as you were jugging in the linden tree
I embraced and kissed my rosy child;
The strings of love trembled gently
  Like harps in the wind;
  Oh blessed May-dream!

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Leuthold (1827 - 1879), "Sehnsucht", written 1870, appears in Gedichte, in 1. Vermischte Gedichte
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