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[An]1 einem lichten Morgen, Da klingt es hell im Thal: Wach' auf, du liebe Blume, Ich bin der Sonnenstral! Erschließe mit Vertrauen Dein Blütenkämmerlein Und laß die heiße Liebe Ins Heiligtum hinein. Ich will ja nichts verlangen Als liegen dir im Schoos, Und deine Blüte küssen -- Eh sie verwelkt im Moos. Ich will ja nichts begehren, Als ruhn an deiner Brust, Und dich dafür verklären Mit sonnenheller Lust!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Frische Lieder von Hermann Rollett, Zweite vermehrte Auflage, Ulm, Stettin'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1850, pages 19-20.
Note: modern spelling would change the following words:
Thal -> Tal, Sonnenstral -> Sonnenstrahl, Schoos -> Schoß
1 Erlanger: "Aus"; further changes may exist not shown above.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Rollett (1819 - 1904), no title, appears in Frische Lieder, in 1. Frühling, in 2. Auferstehungsklänge, no. 2, Ulm, Stettin'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, first published 1848 [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 (Adolf) Emil Büchner (1826 - 1908), "An einem lichten Morgen", op. 18 (Fünf Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran (oder Bariton) mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1858 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], Nürnberg, Schmid [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig von Erlanger (b. 1862), "Wach auf", op. 16 no. 6, published 1887 [ voice and piano ], from Mädchenlieder. Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung, no. 6, Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Esser (1818 - 1872), "Wach' auf", op. 35 no. 2, published 1852 [ voice and piano ], from Auferstehungsklänge. 6 Lieder von H. Rollet, no. 2, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alban Förster (1849 - 1916), "Wach auf", op. 73, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Näumann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Methfessel (1811 - 1886), "An einem lichten Morgen", op. 17 (Sechs Gesänge für gemischten Chor (oder Quartett)) no. 5, published 1874 [ mixed chorus or vocal quartet ], Wien, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Schnell (? - 1884), "An einem lichten Morgen", op. 18 (Drei Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1885 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clara Schumann, née Wieck (1819 - 1896), "An einem lichten Morgen", op. 23 no. 2, published 1856 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Kenneth Smith) , "On morning bright and shining", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Un matin lumineux", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 68
On morning bright and shining, there rings clear through the vale, "Wake up, beloved flower, I am the ray of sun! "Now open confidently your little blossom heart and let my burning love-beams into your holy shrine. "I nothing more require than to lie upon your chest and on your bloom lay kisses 'till in the moss you droop. "I nothing more desire than to sleep up on your breast and thus I will transform you with sunshine's shining joy."
Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Rollett (1819 - 1904), no title, appears in Frische Lieder, in 1. Frühling, in 2. Auferstehungsklänge, no. 2, Ulm, Stettin'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, first published 1848
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 81