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Viel hundert weiße Liljen Im Klostergarten stehn; Die roten, roten Rosen Sind noch einmal so schön. Die roten, roten Rosen, Die darf ich gar nicht ziehn; Im Klostergarten dürfen Bloß weiße Liljen blühn. Drei rote Rosen fallen Vor meine Füße hin; Es fließen meine Tränen, Daß ich eine Nonne bin. Ach Reiter, junger Reiter, Behalt die Rosen dein; Mir blühen bloß die Liljen, Doch nicht die Röselein.
Authorship
- by Hermann Löns (1866 - 1914), "Die Nonne", appears in Der kleine Rosengarten. Volkslieder, Jena: Eugen Diederich Verlag, pp 72-3, first published 1922 [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 Ernst Duis (1896 - 1967), "Die Nonne", published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Lauten-Lieder, no. 3, Wolfenbüttel: Julius-Zwißlers-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Die Nonne", <<1944 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Nunna", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2012-05-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 67
Monta sataa valkoista liljaa kasvaa luostarin puutarhassa; punaiset, punaiset ruusut ovat vielä paljon kauniimpia. Niitä punaisia, punaisia ruusua minä en saa ollenkaan kasvattaa; Luostarin puutarhassa saavat kukkia vain valkoiset liljat. Kolme punaista ruusua putoaa jalkojeni juureen; kyyneleeni vuotavat virtanaan, siksi, että olen nunna. Voi ritari, nuori ritari, pidä sinä vain ruususi; minulle kukkivat vain liljat mutta eivät ruusut.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2019 by Erkki Pullinen, (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 Hermann Löns (1866 - 1914), "Die Nonne", appears in Der kleine Rosengarten. Volkslieder, Jena: Eugen Diederich Verlag, pp 72-3, first published 1922
This text was added to the website: 2019-10-28
Line count: 16
Word count: 58