by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)
Nicht wandle, mein Licht, dort außen
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Hungarian (Magyar)
Nicht wandle, mein Licht, dort außen im Flurbereich! Die Füße würden dir, die zarten, zu naß, zu weich. All überströmt sind dort die Wege, die Stege dir; so überreichlich tränte dorten das Auge mir.
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Confirmed with Georg Friedrich Daumer, Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, zweiter Band, Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstalt, 1855, page 125. Appears in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 19.
Authorship:
- by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 19 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Nicht wandle, mein Licht, dort außen", op. 52 no. 17 (1869), from Liebesliederwalzer, no. 17 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pauline Kroger) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Do not wander, my light, out there", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Ma lumière, ne te promènes pas là bas dehors", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull
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