O alte Heimat süß!
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): DUT ENG FRE
O alte Heimat süß!
Wo find' ich wieder dich?
Welch ein Qual ist dies?
Warum verfolgst du mich?
Warum ertötest mich?
O ferner Liebesschein,
Glimmst wieder nach mir her?
Soll dies mein Glücke sein?
Mir fällt das Leid zu schwer, --
Wer denkt wohl meiner, wer?
Bald such' ich Linderung
Bei dir, o Tränenguß;
Denk' dann, es ist genug,
Dann denk' ich ihren Kuß
Und daß ich wandern muß, --
Und neuer Schmerz befällt,
Die arme treue Brust,
Die Lieb' gefangen hält
Und nicht mehr kennt die Lust --
Mir alles ist vergällt.
F. Hensel sets stanzas 1-3
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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 Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Ferne", op. posth. 9 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1823), published 1850, stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gustav Reichardt (1797 - 1884), "Lied aus Prinz Zerbino'", published [1824] [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Sechs Lieder von Göthe, Tieck, Matthisson, & Körner mit Begleitung des Pianoforte oder der Guitarre , no. 1, Hannover: In der Hofmusikhandlung von C. Bachmann [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Distance", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au loin", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 90
Distance
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
O ancient homeland sweet!
Where will I find you again?
What pain this is!
Why do you pursue me?
Why do you mortify me?
O distant glow of love,
will you glimmer again after me?
Should this be my happiness?
I feel this sorrow is too heavy for me;
Who is thinking of me - who?
Soon I shall seek relief
in you, o gush of tears;
I shall then think it is enough,
Then I'll think of her kiss -
and that I must keep wandering far away.
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 89