Dream of love | Now you have given me everything

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by Benno Kähler (b. 1871), as Kurt Holm

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Liebestraum

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Nun hast du alles mir gegeben,
Was [dir verblieb]¹,
Und flüsterst nur noch unter Beben:
Behalt mich lieb!

Nun lös' ich leise dir die Hände 
Und atme kaum --
O Wunder du ohn' alles Ende . . . .
O Märchentraum!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. von Procházka

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Confirmed with Meine Welt. Gedichte von Kurt Holm (1880-1899), Berlin: Verlag von S. Calvary & Co., 1900, page 91.

¹ von Procházka: "mir noch blieb"

Text Authorship:

by Benno Kähler (b. 1871), as Kurt Holm, "Liebestraum", appears in Meine Welt, in Meine Sultanin, first published 1900 [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 Hans Hochapfel (1871 - 1930), "Liebestraum", op. 13 no. 2, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Meine Sultanin. Ein Cyklus von 5 Gedichten für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte , no. 2, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolph, Freiherr von Procházka (1864 - 1936), "Liebestraum", op. 18 (Neun Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 8 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Dream of love", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2017-12-29
Line count: 8
Word count: 42

Dream of love

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Now you have given me everything
That [you still had]¹,
And, trembling, you now only whisper:
Keep on loving me!

Now I gently loosen your hands for you
And scarcely breathe --
Oh you wonder without any end . . . .
Oh fairy-tale dream!

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¹ von Procházka: "I still had"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Benno Kähler (b. 1871), as Kurt Holm, "Liebestraum", appears in Meine Welt, in Meine Sultanin, first published 1900
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This text was added to the website: 2020-03-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 46