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Die Schnur, die Perl' an Perle Um deinen Hals gereihte, Wie wiegt sie sich so fröhlich Auf deiner schönen Brust! Mit Seel' und Sinn begabet, Mit Seligkeit berauschet Sie, diese Götterlust. Was müssen wir erst fühlen, In welchen Herzen schlagen, So heiße Menschenherzen, Wofern es uns gestattet, Uns traulich anzuschmiegen An eine solche Brust?
Authorship
- by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, first published 1855 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Die Schnur, die Perl' an Perle", op. 57 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge) no. 7 (<<1871), published 1872 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "The string, on which pearl after pearl", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Le collier, perle après perle", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Kyle Gee) , title 1: "The necklace, the row of pearl after pearl", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Het snoer met enkel parels", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 54
The necklace, the row of pearl after pearl that is strung across your collar, how pleasantly it sways on your gorgeous breast! It is endowed with soul and feeling, intoxicated with bliss from this divine pleasure. What must our own emotions be then, we, in whom hearts beat, such passionate human hearts, if we are allowed to intimately nestle against such a breast?
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Kyle Gee, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, first published 1855
- a text in Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2014-01-09
Line count: 13
Word count: 63