À mon côté, tu étais assise

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by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

An meiner Seite saßest du

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

An meiner Seite saßest du,
Wie eine Blume schön,
An meiner Seite blühtest du,
Eine Rose anzuseh'n.
Ach! was sind Rosen auf dem Feld,
In aller ihrer Pracht,
Ach, was ist mir die ganze Welt,
Wenn dein süßer Mund mir lacht!
Kein Veilchen wie dein Auge blau,
Keine Rose wie dein Gesicht,
Du bist meine liebe kleine Frau,
Meine Welt und mein Gedicht.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Klaus Groth's Gesammelte Werke, Vierter Band, Plattdeutsche Erzählungen - Hochdeutsche Gedichte, Kiel und Leipzig: Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1893, page 248.

Underneath the poem in the above source: 24. März 1859. (Abends nach einer Gesellschaft.)

Text Authorship:

by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, written 1859, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in An meine Frau [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 Gustav Jenner (1865 - 1920), "An meiner Seite sassest du", op. 2 (Acht Lieder von Klaus Groth für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 6, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: N. Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "You sat at my side", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

À mon côté, tu étais assise

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

À mon côté, tu étais assise,
Comme une belle fleur,
À mon côté, tu fleurissais,
Comme si je voyais une rose.
Ah ! que sont les roses dans le champ
Dans toute leur splendeur,
Ah ! qu'est pour moi le monde entier,
Quand ta douce bouche me sourit.
Il n'y a pas de violette comme tes yeux bleus,
Aucune rose comme ton visage.
Tu es ma chère petite femme,
Mon monde et mon poème.

About the headline (FAQ)

Translation of title "An meiner Seite sassest du" = "À mon côté, tu étais assise"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, written 1859, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in An meine Frau
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This text was added to the website: 2020-12-16
Line count: 12
Word count: 72