Therese | Jij grasgroene jongen

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by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Therese

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Du milchjunger Knabe,
Wie schaust du mich an?
Was haben deine Augen
Für eine Frage getan!

Alle Ratsherrn in der Stadt
Und alle Weisen der Welt
Bleiben stumm auf die Frage,
Die deine Augen gestellt!

Eine Meermuschel liegt
Auf dem Schrank meiner Bas':
Da halte dein Ohr d'ran,
Dann hörst du etwas!

Text Authorship:

by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), "Therese", appears in Neuere Gedichte, in Von Weibern - Alte Lieder, no. 3, first published 1851 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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), "Therese", op. 86 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1878) [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Robert Fischhof, Max Oberleithner, Hans Erich Pfitzner, Franz Philipp, Richard Schweizer, Christian Sinding, Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer, Otto Vrieslander, Hugo Wolf.

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Teresa", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Therese", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "You milk-young boy, why do you look at me so?", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Thérèse", copyright © 2010, (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: 12
Word count: 52

Therese

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Jij grasgroene jongen,
Wat kijk je mij aan?
Wat zie ik in je ogen
Voor een vraag eig’nlijk staan?
 
Alle dekens in de stad
En alle wijzen der aard’
Blijven stom bij de vragen
Waarmee jouw oog naar mij staart!
 
Wel, een zeeschelp, die ligt
Op de kast van mijn nicht:
Houd daar maar je oor aan,
Dan hoor je ’n bericht!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), "Therese", appears in Neuere Gedichte, in Von Weibern - Alte Lieder, no. 3, first published 1851
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This text was added to the website: 2014-04-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 62