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by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)

Amalia
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Schön wie Engel voll Walhallas Wonne,
Schön vor allen Jünglingen war er,
Himmlisch mild sein Blick, wie Maiensonne,
Rückgestrahlt vom blauen Spiegelmeer.

Seine Küsse - paradiesisch Fühlen!
Wie [zwo]1 Flammen sich ergreifen, wie
Harfentöne in einander spielen
Zu der himmelvollen Harmonie -

Stürzten, flogen, [schmolzen]2 Geist [und]3 Geist zusammen,
Lippen, Wangen brannten, zitterten,
Seele rann in Seele - Erd und Himmel schwammen
Wie zerronnen um die Liebenden!

Er ist hin - vergebens, ach vergebens
Stöhnet ihm der bange Seufzer nach!
Er ist hin, und alle Lust des Lebens
[Wimmert]4 hin in ein verlor'nes Ach!
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Confirmed with Gedichte von Friederich Schiller, Zweiter Theil, Zweite, verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage, Leipzig, 1805, bei Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, pages 78-79; and with Schiller's anonymously published Die Räuber. Ein Schauspiel. Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1781, page 112.

First published as Amalia's song in "Die Räuber", act 3, scene 1, with an additional stanza (between stanza 1 and 2), which was omitted by Schiller in the editions of his collected poems: 

Sein Umarmen - wütendes Entzüken! -
Mächtig feurig klopfte Herz an Herz,
Mund und Ohr gefesselt - Nacht vor unsern Bliken -
Und der Geist gewirbelt himmelwärts.

1 Schiller (Wien 1810 edition), and Schubert: "zwei"
2 Schiller (Die Räuber): "rasten"
3 Schubert: "in"
4 Schubert (Alte Gesamtausgabe): "Rinnet"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Amalia", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Amalia", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Amalia", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Amalia", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Amalia", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 90