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Silbermond mit bleichen Strahlen pflegst du Wald und Feld zu malen, gibst den Bergen, gibst den Talen der Empfindung Seufzer ein. Sei Vertrauter meiner Schmerzen, Segler in der Lüfte See: Sag' ihr, die ich trag' im Herzen, wie mich tötet Liebesweh. Sag' ihr, über tausend Meilen sehne sich mein Herz nach ihr. »Keine Ferne kann es heilen, nur ein holder Blick von dir.« Sag' ihr, daß zu Tod getroffen diese Hülle bald zerfällt; nur ein schmeichlerisches Hoffen sei's, das sie zusammenhält.
Authorship
- by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), from Gedichte, Leipzig, first published 1844 [author's text not yet checked 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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "An den Mond", op. 71 (Fünf Gesänge) no. 2 (1877), published 1877 [voice and piano], Berlin, Simrock [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "To the moon", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "À la lune", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Aan de maan", copyright © 2014, (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: 2014-06-16 10:01:50
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Word count: 81
Silver moon with pale rays, you often paint the forest and field; you give the mountains, you give the valleys a sigh of feeling. Be the confidant of my sorrows, sailor on the sea of the air: Tell her, whom I carry in my heart, how yearning for love is killing me. Tell her that over a thousand miles my heart pines for her. "No distance can heal it, only a loving glance from you." Tell her that I have been struck mortally and my body soon shall fall; only a flattering hope keeps me together.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), from Gedichte, Leipzig, first published 1844
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:50
Line count: 16
Word count: 97