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by Gustav Kastropp (1844 - 1925)

Ahnungsselige Waldesnacht
 (Sung text for setting by F. Weingartner)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ahnungsselige Waldesnacht!--
Leise lispeln die Blätter
Und das silberne Mondlicht
Zittert von Oben
Hernieder.

Dämmernd erscheint mir dein Bild
Und begeistert
Möcht' ich singen ein Lied,
Wie die Drossel es sang,
Die nun im Erlengebüsch
Verstummt ist.

Bist du doch selbst ein Gedicht,
So wunderbar lieblich,
Wie's kein begeisterter Dichtermund,
Wie's kein schmelzender Vogelgesang
Singen kann.

Nicht mit dem silbernen Mond,
Dem kalten, bleichen,
Nicht mit der sengenden Sonne
Kannst du verglichen werden,
Du Holde,

Doch wenn am Sommerabend
In feuchter Verklärung
Blinket der Abendstern,
Denk' ich an deine Augen,
O Ella!

Composition:

    Set to music by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Ahnungsselige Waldesnacht", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Harold. Eine Folge von neun Gesängen aus Kastropp's lyrischer Rhapsodie "König Elf's Lieder" , no. 3, Mannheim, Heckel

Text Authorship:

  • by Gustav Kastropp (1844 - 1925), no title, appears in König Elfs Lieder, in 1. Erster Teil. Rosenzeit, no. 28, first published 1875

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Blissfully portending forest night", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-11
Line count: 26
Word count: 92

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