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

 ... 

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

Composition:

Set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Nähe des Geliebten", alternate title: "Ich denke dein", WoO. 74 (1799), stanza 1, a song with six variations for piano four-hands

Text Authorship:

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

See other settings of this text.

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

• 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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