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Ich hab' mir ein Märchen erdacht Aus einem einzigen Blick Und eine einzige Nacht Verwehte all mein Glück . . . [Ich träumte den seligsten]1 Traum Von Liebe, die nimmer vergeht . . . Ein Hauch -- ich fühlte ihn kaum -- Da war er schon verweht.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Dämmerung. Gedichte von Maidy Koch, Dresden und Leipzig: E. Pierson's Verlag, 1900, page 12.
1 Hoppe: "Mir träumte der seligste"Authorship:
- by Maidy Koch (1875 - 1966), no title, appears in Dämmerung [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 Paul Hoppe (1869 - 1933), "Ich hab' mir ein Märchen erdacht", op. 60 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Luckhardt's Musik-Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "I thought up a fairy-tale for myself", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2022-10-14
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I thought up a fairy-tale for myself From a single glance And a single night Destroyed all my happiness . . . I dreamt the most blissful dream Of love, that never dies . . . A breath -- I hardly felt it -- And the dream was already dispelled.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Maidy Koch (1875 - 1966), no title, appears in Dämmerung
This text was added to the website: 2022-10-16
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Word count: 48