Sehnsucht nach dem Geliebten
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Um dich hab ich die ganze Nacht
In Weh durchweint, in Noth durchwacht,
Um dich begrüßt mit heißem Schlag
Mein Herz den grauen Wintertag --
Ach, wirst du kommen, Liebster mein,
Die Sonne dieses Tags zu sein?
Das Leben rinnt uns durch die Hand,
Ist jeder Tag ein Körnlein Sand,
Das häuft sich an und lastet schwer,
Darunter blüht kein Hoffen mehr --
O komm, so lang der Sonnenschein
Uns noch umleuchtet, Liebster mein!
Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, Fünfte Auflage, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 90.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Yearning for my beloved", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Yearning for my beloved
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Because of you I wept through the whole night in sorrow,
Kept watch [through the whole night] in misery,
Because of you my heart greets
The grey winter day with fervent beating --
Ah, shall you come, my beloved,
To be the sun of this day?
Life runs through our hands,
Every day is a grain of sand,
[The sand] piles up and weighs heavily [upon me],
Under it no hope blossoms --
Oh come, as long as sunshine
Still shimmers about us, my beloved!
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