Smaoinímse ort: ar fheiceáil dom crithloinnir

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by Gabriel Rosenstock

Nähe des Geliebten

(Sung text for setting by L. Beethoven)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE IRI ITA POR

Ich denke dein, wenn mir der Sonne Schimmer
Von Meeren strahlt;
Ich denke dein, wenn sich des Mondes Flimmer
In Quellen mahlt.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanza 1 of the original text.

Note: Wilhelmj's score has a typo in stanza 1, line 3: word 5 is "dich" instead of "sich".

Composition:

Ludwig van Beethoven

Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Nähe des Geliebten", written 1795, first published 1795

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Nabijheid van de beminde", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , "Nearness to the Beloved", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , appears in The Poems of Goethe, first published 1853
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Proximité du bien-aimé", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Presenza della persona amata", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "Penso em ti", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 102

Smaoinímse ort: ar fheiceáil dom...

(Sung text translation for setting by L. Beethoven)

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Language: Irish (Gaelic) after the German (Deutsch)

Smaoinímse ort: ar fheiceáil dom crithloinnir
Ar bharr na dtonn.
Smaoinímse ort: ón ngealach sníonn gile
I mbun na habhann

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Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2014 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
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