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Hoffen und wieder verzagen, Harrend lauschen [vor]1 ihrem Balkon, Ob nicht, vom Winde getragen, Zu mir dringe von ihr ein Ton, Also [reihen]2 seit Monden schon Tage sich mir zu Tagen. Spät, wenn stumm und stummer Nacht sich lagert im öden Revier, Senken zu kurzem Schlummer Sich ermüdet die Wimpern mir; Wieder empor aus Träumen von ihr Fahr' ich zu neuem Kummer. Aber, o Himmel, ich flehe: Raube mir nicht mein teuerstes Gut, Dies beglückende Wehe, Das ich genährt mit des Herzens Blut! Hoch und höher laß lodern die Glut, Drin ich selig vergehe!
1 Strauss: "an"
2 Strauss: "reih'n"
Authorship
- by Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack (1815 - 1894), "Hoffen und wieder verzagen", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Liebesgedichte und Lieder, first published 1866 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Hoffen und wieder verzagen", op. 19 (Sechs Lieder aus "Lotosblätter" von Aldolf Friedrich Graf von Schack) no. 5, also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by John Bernhoff (flourished 1890-1912) ; composed by Richard Georg Strauss.
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Esperar i de nou desesperar", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Hopen en dan weer versagen", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Hoping and despairing again", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2018-12-04 22:57:17
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Hoping and despairing again, listening impatiently at her balcony, in case the wind carries to me the sound of her voice - thus for a month already the days have passed for me. Late, when mutely and more mutely night rests in this bleak area, into a brief slumber droop my exhausted eyelids; they open again from dreams of her and I go onward with new anguish. But, O Heaven, I pray: do not rob me of my dearest possession, this happy woe which I have nourished with the blood of my heart; high and higher let the flames blaze, so that I may die blissfully in them.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Adolf Friedrich, Graf von Schack (1815 - 1894), "Hoffen und wieder verzagen", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Liebesgedichte und Lieder, first published 1866
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:48
Line count: 18
Word count: 108