LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884)

Die Luft ist grau
 (Sung text for setting by R. Bergh)
 Matches original text
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Die Luft ist grau und grau das Meer,
Der Wind fegt pfeifend drüber her,
Die Möwe kreischt, die Brandung wallt, --
Wie ward mein Herz so sterbensalt!
  Traurig rinnen die Tage.

Wohl hab' ich andre Zeit gekannt,
Wir fuhren im Nachen, Hand in Hand,
Das Meer war blau, die Sonne schien,
Ich sah und wußte nichts als ihn;
  Selig waren die Tage.

Nun liegt der Kahn und fault am Strand,
Er aber ging ins fremde Land,
Er ging, ein hohes Weib zu frein, --
Gott geb' ihm Glück! Das Leid ist mein.
  Traurig rinnen die Tage.

Composition:

    Set to music by Rudolph Bergh (1859 - 1924), "Die Luft ist grau", op. 6 (Fünf Mädchenlieder) no. 5 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884), "Nordisch", appears in Spätherbstblätter, in Nachlese älterer Gedichte, in Zwei Mädchenlieder, no. 2

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2011-08-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 96

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris