Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön,
Das hab' ich jüngst im Traum gesehn,
Es ist so mild und engelgleich,
Und doch so bleich, so schmerzenreich.
Und nur die Lippen, die sind rot;
Bald aber küßt sie bleich der Tod.
Erlöschen wird das Himmelslicht,
Das aus den frommen Augen bricht.
Composition:
Set to music by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Dein Angesicht", op. 127 no. 2 (1840), published 1854, from [Fünf] Lieder und Gesänge von Kerner, Heine, Strachwitz, Shakespeare, no. 2, Dresden, Paul
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Jouw aangezicht", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
- ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
- FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 5, first published 1827
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- POL Polish (Polski) (Aleksander Kraushar) , no title, appears in Pieśni Heinego, in Intermezzo, no. 5, first published 1880
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) , no title, appears in Роман в пяти стихотворениях = Roman v pjati stikhotvorenijakh (A novel in five poems), no. 2 [an adaptation]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
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Line count: 8
Word count: 51
Your face so lovable and fair:
I saw it recently in a dream.
It is so mild and angelic,
and yet so pale, so full of pain!
And only your lips are red;
but soon Death will kiss them pale.
Out will go the heavenly light
that reflects out from your innocent eyes.
