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by Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826)

Sie liebt, mich liebt die Auserwählte!
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Sie liebt, mich liebt die Auserwählte! 
  Ein Engel kam von ihr
Im Abendlispel, und erzählte 
  Die leisen Seufzer mir.
Für mich, o Selma, bebt im Stillen 
  Dein Herz voll süßer Qual,
Und schöne Sehnsuchtsthränen hüllen 
  Der blauen Augen Strahl.

Leih' mir, o Blitz, die Flammenflügel! 
  Leih', Sturm, die Schwingen mir! 
Hin über Strom und Thal und Hügel
  Flieg' ich entzückt zu ihr! 
Und heulte Tod aus tausend Flüssen,
  Von tausend Felsen Tod;
Ich will, ich will die Thränen küssen,
  Und fliege durch den Tod! 

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

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Confirmed with Sämmtliche poetische Werke von Johann Heinrich Voss, ed. by Abraham Voss, Leipzig, Immanuel Müller, 1835, page 156.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826), "Selma", appears in Oden und Lieder [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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788), "Selma", published 1776 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Heinrich Egli (1742 - 1810), "Selma", published 1786 [ voice and piano ], Zürich : Orell, Gessner, Fueslin und Compagnie, in Singcompositionen mit Begleitung des Claviers [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Sie liebt, mich liebt die Auserwählte", H-U 172 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Selma", published 1790 [ voice and piano ], from Oden und Lieder von Göthe, Bürger, Sprickmann, Voß und Thomsen, mit Melodien beym Klavier zu singen, Zweyter Theil, no. 2, Berlin, Joachim Pauli [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 84

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