June night | Soft waves of light dream

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by Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Juninacht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Weiche Lichteswellen träumen
In die warme Juninacht.
Leise atmen alle Blumen
Ihrer Seele süße Düfte
In die leichten lauen Winde,
Die tief in den Zweigen singen
Stille, wehmutsvolle Lieder
Müde schwere Sehnsuchtsworte,
Die in unserm Herzen klingen,
Die wir suchen, niemals finden
Aber dennoch stets verstehn,
Wenn die lauen Juninächte
Ihre Sehnsuchtsmelodien
Durch die dunklen Zweigen wehn . . .

Confirmed with Stefan Zweig, Silberne Saiten; Gedichte, Berlin und Leipzig: Schuster & Loeffler, 1901, page 29.

Text Authorship:

by Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942), "Juninacht", appears in Silberne Saiten [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 Albin Fries (b. 1955), "Juninacht", op. 38 no. 9 (2013), first performed 2013 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "June night", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-05-15
Line count: 14
Word count: 60

June night

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Soft waves of light dream
In the warm June night.
The flowers quietly breathe forth
The sweet scents of their souls
In the light, warm breezes,
And, deep within the branches, sing
Quiet songs full of melancholy[,] 
Weary, heavy words of yearning
That resound in our hearts,
Which we seek, never find,
But nevertheless always understand
When the warm June nights
Waft their melodies of yearning
Through the dark branches . . .

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942), "Juninacht", appears in Silberne Saiten
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This text was added to the website: 2024-06-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 73