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O liebliche Wangen, Ihr macht mir Verlangen, Dies rote, dies weiße Zu schauen mit Fleiße. Und dies nur alleine Ist's nicht, [das]1 ich meine; Zu schauen, zu grüssen, Zu rühren, zu küssen! Ihr macht mir Verlangen, O liebliche Wangen! O Sonne der Wonne! O Wonne der Sonne! O Augen, so saugen Das Licht meiner Augen. O englische Sinnen! O himmlisch Beginnen! O Himmel auf Erden, Magst du mir nicht werden, O Wonne der Sonne! O Sonne der Wonne! O Schönste der Schönen! Benimm mir dies Sehnen, Komm, eile, komm, komme, Du süße, du fromme! Ach, Schwester, ich sterbe, Ich sterb', ich verderbe, Komm, [tröste, komm, heile]2, Benimm mir dies Sehnen, O Schönste der Schönen!
1 Brahms: "was"
2 Brahms: "komme, komm, eile"
Authorship
- by Paul Fleming (1609 - 1640), appears in Geistliche und weltliche Poemata, Jena, first published 1651 [author's text checked 1 time 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), "O liebliche Wangen", op. 47 (Fünf Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 4 (1868), published 1868, first performed 1887 [voice and piano], Berlin, Simrock [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "O lovely cheeks", copyright ©
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Eduardo Borja Illescas) , title 1: "Oh, encantadoras mejillas", copyright © 1982, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Ô joues adorables", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Max Mader) , title 1: "הו לחיים יפות", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "O lieflijke wangen", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:28
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Word count: 114
¡Oh, hermosas mejillas Que infundís en mí El deseo de contemplar continuamente Ese preciso carmesí y esa blancura. Y no es solamente ese mi anhelo; Quiero miraros, saludaros, tocaros; Ansío besaros. Oh, sol de las delicias; oh, delicia de sol; Oh, mirada que ausenta de mis ojos la luz. Oh, angelicales pensamientos, Oh, divinales designios y cielo en esta tierra, ¿no serás mía, sol de delicia, Delicia de sol? Hermosa entre las hermosas, ¡Aleja esta cuita, y ven! ¡Ven, dulce, piadosa, Ven!
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 1982 by Eduardo Borja Illescas, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Paul Fleming (1609 - 1640), appears in Geistliche und weltliche Poemata, Jena, first published 1651
Text added to the website: 2005-01-12 00:00:00
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:12
Line count: 22
Word count: 83