Daily the wondrously beautiful

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Der Asra

(Sung text for setting by C. Loewe)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG ENG ITA

  Täglich ging die wunderschöne 
Sultanstochter auf und nieder 
Um die Abendzeit am Springbrunn,
Wo die weißen Wasser plätschern.

  Täglich stand der junge Sklave
Um die Abendzeit am Springbrunn.
Wo die weißen Wasser plätschern;
Täglich ward er bleich und bleicher.

  Eines Abends trat die Fürstin 
Auf ihn zu mit raschen Worten:
"Deinen Namen will ich wissen, 
Deine Heimat, deine Sippschaft!"

  Und der Sklave sprach: "Ich heiße
Mahomet, und bin aus Yemen,
Und mein Stamm sind jene Asra,
Welche sterben, wenn sie lieben."

Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 392.

Composition:

Carl Loewe

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Der Asra", appears in Romanzero, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Historien, no. 15

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

ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , "The Asra", appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
ENG English [singable] (Peter Palmer) , "The Asra", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Asra", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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The Asra

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Loewe)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  Daily the wondrously beautiful 
Sultan’s daughter walks up and down
In the evening at the fountain
Where the white waters purl.

  Daily the young slave stood
In the evening at the fountain
Where the white waters purl;
Daily he became pale and paler.

  One evening the princess came
Up to him with rapid words:
"I want to know your name,
Your homeland, your kin!"

  And the slave said: "I am called
Mohammed, I am from Yemen,
And my tribe is those Asra,
Who die when they love."

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Der Asra", appears in Romanzero, in 1. Erstes Buch, in Historien, no. 15
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