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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Meeraugen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  FRE
Was will in deinen Augen mir 
[dies]1 dunkelvolle, fremde Weh,
so still und sehr?
so tief und schwer
wie Stürme, die Ruhe suchten
im Schooß der grauen See.

Versinken will, versinken mir
in dieser Augen tiefen Schooß
mein Herz -- und will
wie Du so still,
so wild an Dein Herz schlagen,
dann brechen die Stürme los!

Und will dich wiegen so mit mir
in rasender, lachender Seligkeit
auf freiem Meer!
bis tief und sehr
die Herzen wieder ruhen,
ruhen vom Sturm und [Leid]2.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Zemlinsky 

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Lebensblätter: Gedichte und Anderes, Berlin, Verlag der Genossenschaft PAN, 1895, page 55.

1 Zemlinsky: "das"
2 Zemlinsky: "Streit"

Text Authorship:

  • by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Meeraugen", appears in Lebensblätter  [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 Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Meeraugen" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Meeraugen", op. 7 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3 (1900?), published 1901 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Hans Heinz Scholtys.

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

  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Les yeux de la mer", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 83

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