Ze droegen hem op de baar, hoofd bloot

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by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Drittes Lied der Ophelia

(Sung text for setting by R. Strauss)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

    Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß,
    Leider ach, leider, den Liebsten:
    Manche Thräne fiel in des Grabes Schoß; -
Fahr' wohl, meine Taube!

Note: according to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. by Charles Youmans, Seeger is listed as the translator of Hamlet, but Seeger's translations are quite different. Simrock and Seeger are listed together as the translators for the ten-volume set.

Composition:

Richard Georg Strauss

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868
sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, appears in Hamlet and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2005-12-28
Line count: 4
Word count: 24

Derde lied van Ophelia

(Sung text translation for setting by R. Strauss)

See original

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Ze droegen hem op de baar, hoofd bloot,
Dromer, ach, dromer, de liefste.
Vele tranen vielen in ’t graf zijn schoot;
Vaarwel, jij, mijn duifje!

Mijn jonge frisse Hansje is ’t van wie ik houd,
En komt hij nimmer meer?

Hij is dood, ’t is waar!
Zoek je doodsbed maar,
Hij zoekt jou nimmer meer.

Zijn baard was wit als sneeuw,
Zijn hoofd als vlas daarbij.
Hij is weg, hij is weg,
Houd op met treuren, zeg:
In vrede ruste hij! -
En ook alle christenzielen! Daarom bid ik:
God zij met u!

Translation of title "Drittes Lied der Ophelia" = "Derde lied van Ophelia"

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 and misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, appears in Hamlet and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Go to the text page.

Go to the general single-text view

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-17
Line count: 17
Word count: 98