At the crossroads he was buried

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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by T. P. (Peter) Perrin

Am Kreuzweg wird begraben

(Sung text for setting by C. Griffes)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Am Kreuzweg wird begraben
Wer selber sich brachte um;
Da wächst eine blaue Blume,
Die Armesünderblum'.

Am Kreuzweg stand ich und seufzte;
Die Nacht war kalt und stumm.
Im Mondschein bewegte sich langsam
Die Armesünderblum'.

Composition:

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

Four German Songs

Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 62

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

ENG English (T. P. (Peter) Perrin) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 62, first published 1827
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
RUS Russian (Русский) (Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) , no title, appears in Роман в пяти стихотворениях = Roman v pjati stikhotvorenijakh (A novel in five poems), no. 5

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Word count: 41

At the crossroads he was buried

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Griffes)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

At the crossroads he was buried,
the one who took his own life.
A blue flower grows there,
the Woeful-sinner's-bloom.
 
At the crossroads I stood sighing;
the night was cold and still.
The Woeful-sinner's-bloom
slowly stirred in the moonlight.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 62
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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 39