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In meiner Liebsten Garten Sind nur die Rosen noch wach; Sie ranken empor sich am Erker Und schau'n in ihr Schlafgemach. Drei Lilienblättchen warf ich Zum Fenster ihr hinein: Ei, schläfst Du oder wachest, Herzallerliebste mein? "Mein Herz läßt mich nicht schlafen, Ich bin so süß [verwacht]1; Da drunten die Nachtigallen Schlagen die ganze Nacht." -- Das sind nicht die Nachtigallen, Die schlagen im Lindenbaum; [Es]2 sind meiner Liebe Gedanken, Die ziehen durch Deinen Traum.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Deutsche Dichter-Gaben: Album für Ferdinand Freiligrath. Eine Sammlung bisher ungedruckter Gedichte der namhaftesten deutschen Dichter, herausgegeben von Christian Schad und Ignaz Hug, Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1868, pages 357-358, titled "Sommer-Mondnacht."; and confirmed with Gedichte von Georg Scherer, vierte, vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin, Wien: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1894, page 189, untitled.
1 Deprosse: "erwacht"2 Deprosse: "Das"
Text Authorship:
- by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Sommer-Mondnacht", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 2. Zweites Buch, in Aus der Rosenzeit, no. 13 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Franz Wilhelm Abt (1819 - 1885), "Sommer-Mondnacht", op. 341 (6 Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 6, published 1868 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Baeker (1866 - 1944), "Sommermondnacht", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Glas [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Deprosse (1838 - 1878), "Sommer-Mondnacht", op. 38 (Vier Lieder für 1 Mittelstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1878 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexander von Fielitz (1860 - 1930), "Aus der Rosenzeit", op. 26 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Jacoby , "Sommermondnacht", op. 10 (2 Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henning Karl Adam von Koss (1855 - 1913), "Sommermondnacht", op. 23 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Glas [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Lippold (1845 - 1910), "Sommermondnacht", op. 29 (Sechs Gedichte für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Marschalk (1863 - 1940), "In meiner Liebsten Garten", op. 7 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 1, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-05
Line count: 16
Word count: 76
In the garden of my beloved Only the roses are still awake; They twine themselves upward on the bay window And peer into her sleeping chamber. I threw three lily petals Into her window: Are you sleeping or waking, Most beloved of my heart? "My heart will not let me sleep, I am so sweetly sleepless; Down below the nightingales Are singing the whole night long." -- Those are not nightingales That are singing in the linden tree; Those are the thoughts of my love [for you] That pass through your dreams.
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Translations of title(s):
"Aus der Rosenzeit" = "From the time of roses"
"In meiner Liebsten Garten" = "In the garden of my beloved"
"Sommer-Mondnacht" = "Summer moonlit night"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Scherer (1824 - 1909), "Sommer-Mondnacht", appears in Gedichte von Georg Scherer, in 2. Zweites Buch, in Aus der Rosenzeit, no. 13
This text was added to the website: 2017-07-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 91