by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Translation © by Christakis Poumbouris

Mignon
 (Sung text for setting by A. Berg)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE GRE HUN ITA ITA NOR
Kennst du das Land? wo die Citronen blühn,
Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn,
Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht, 
Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht,
Kennst du es wohl?
                   Dahin! Dahin
Möcht' ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter, ziehn.

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

See also the following poems inspired by this poem: the French poem Mignon and the German poem Kennst du das Land, wo über Grabes Nächte.

Note: modern German would employ the following spellings: "gethan" -> "getan", "Maulthier" -> "Maultier", etc.

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Ken je het land?", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Walter Meyer) , "Knowest thou where?", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "Mignon", first published 1907
  • ENG English [singable] (Charles Fonteyn Manney) , "Mignon's song", first published 1911
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2016
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Connais-tu le pays où les citronniers fleurissent", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Conosci tu il paese", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , "Conosci il paese", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 137

Language: Greek (Ελληνικά)  after the German (Deutsch) 
Ξέρεις τη γη π’ ανθίζει η λεμονιά,
Στα σκοτεινά λάμπουν μήλα χρυσά
Και αύρα γαλανού ουρανού φυσά,
Στα ύψη’ η δάφνη κι ηρεμεί’ η μυρτιά;
Ξέρεις τη γη;
Εκεί, εκεί, εκεί θα ’ρθω,
Θέλω με σέ, γλυκέ μου, να βρεθώ!

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

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  • Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Greek (Ελληνικά) copyright © 2018 by Christakis Poumbouris, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.

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This text was added to the website: 2018-03-03
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Word count: 113