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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Frühlingslied

(Sung text for setting by F. Curschmann)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Gekommen ist der Maie,
Die Blumen und Bäume blühn,
Und durch die Himmelsbläue
Die ros'gen Wolken ziehn.

Die lust'gen Vöglein singen
Herab aus luftiger Höh,
Die weißen Lämmer springen
Im weichen grünen Klee.

Doch ich kann nicht springen und singen,
Ich liege krank im Gras;
Ich höre fernes Klingen,
Mir träumt, ich weiß nicht was.

Composition:

(Karl) Friedrich Curschmann

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le mois de mai est arrivé", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor], Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 62

Spring song

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Curschmann)

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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

May has come,
The flowers and the trees blossom,
And through the blue of heaven
The rosy clouds travel.

The merry birdlets are singing
Down from the airy heights,
The white lambs are leaping about
In the soft green clover.

But I cannot leap and sing,
Ill I lie in the grass;
I hear a distant ringing,
I am dreaming I know not what.

Translations of title(s):
"Neuer Frühling" = "New spring"
"Mailied" = "May-song"
"Zum ersten Mai" = "For the first of May"
"Frühlingsankunft" = "Spring's arrival"
"Ungestillte Sehnsucht" = "Unassuaged yearning"
"Im Mai" = "In May"
"Duett" = "Duet"
"Der Mai" = "May"
"Frühlingslied" = "Spring song"
"Gekommen ist der Maie" = "May has come"
"Der neue Frühling" = "The new spring"

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