Wir gingen beide Hand in Hand
Language: German (Deutsch)
Wir gingen beide Hand in Hand,
Ihr Auge sprach, was ich empfand,
Es kämpft auf ihren Wangen
Verwirrung und Verlangen.
[Gott Amor folgte]1 Schritt vor Schritt,
Sie seufzte still, ich seufzte mit,
Und Nachtigallen sangen.
Jetzt suchte sie zum [Busenstrauß]2
Vergissmeinnicht und Veilchen aus,
Ich bückte mich, und drückte
Die Hand, die Blumen pflückte.
Sie zog die Hand beschämt an sich,
Errötend fragt' ich: Liebst du mich?
Sie schwieg, ward rot, und nickte.
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First published in Friedrich Schiller's Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1797. Confirmed with Gedichte von A. F. von Steigentesch, zweite vermehrte Auflage, Frankfurt am Mayn bei Friedrich Wilmans, 1808, p. 58.
1 note: in later editions, "Sie floh, ich folgte"
2 Gerson: "Blumenstrauß"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Georg Gerson (1790 - 1825), "Lied von Steigentesch", G. 29 (1809) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georg Gerson (1790 - 1825), "Lied von Steigentesch", G. 184 (1821) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (1781 - 1829), "Lied", op. 89 no. 4, published 1817 [ voice and guitar or piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (1774 - 1850), "Lied", op. 6 (6 Lieder) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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Line count: 14
Word count: 75
We walked hand in hand
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
We walked hand in hand,
our eyes spoke what we felt;
upon our faces there struggled
confusion and yearning.
The God of Love following step by step,
she sighed quietly, I sighed with her,
and nightingales were singing.
Now she wanted a sprig for her bosom
of forget-me-nots and violets.
I bent down, and pressed
into her hand the flowers I had picked.
Embarrassed, she pulled her hand back
and blushingly I asked, do you love me?
She was silent, grew red, and nodded.
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Translations of titles
"Lied von Steigentesch" = "Song by Steigentesch"
"Lied" = "Song"
Text Authorship:
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 84