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by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914)

Verwandlung
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Mühlen träg die Flügel drehn,
[Über die]1 Stoppeln schleicht der Wind.
Dunkle Hütten im Grunde stehn,
Kleine Fenster, trüb und blind.

[Sieh]2, da kommt ein Sonnenschein,
Stiehlt sich durchs Gewölk heran:
Mühlen, Feld und Fensterlein
Fangen flugs zu lachen an.

Liebes Herz, so bist du ganz,
Blöd und blind viel Tag und Nacht,
Bis ein leiser Liebesglanz
Dir die Welt zum Himmel macht.

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•   I. Bronsart von Schellendorf 

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Confirmed with Gesammelte Werke von Paul Heyse. Erster Band. Gedichte, Berlin, Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1872, page 4.

Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".

1 Bronsart von Schellendorf: "Über"
2 Bronsart von Schellendorf: "Siehe"

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Verwandlung", appears in Gedichte, in Jugendlieder [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 Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf (1840 - 1913), "Verwandlung", 1910, published 2003 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-05-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 66

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