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All mein Wirken, all mein Leben, Strebt nach dir Verehrte hin! Alle meine Sinne weben Mir dein Bild o Zauberinn! Du entflammest meinen Busen Zu der Leyer Harmonie, Du begeisterst mehr als Musen Und entzückest mehr als sie. - - Ach dein blaues Auge strahlet Durch den Sturm der Seele mild, Und dein süßes Lächeln mahlet Rosig mir der Zukunft Bild. Herrlich schmückt des Himmels Gränzen Zwar [Aurorens]1 Purpurlicht, Aber lieblicheres Glänzen Überdeckt dein Angesicht, Wenn mit wonnetrunknen Blicken Ach! und unaussprechlich schön, Meine Augen voll Entzücken Purpurn dich erröthen sehn.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Erstlinge unserer einsamen Stunden von einer Gesellschaft, Zweytes Bändchen. Prag, gedruckt bey Johann Diesbach, 1792, page 25. Note: this source shows no stanza breaks.
1 Schubert: "Aurora's"Text Authorship:
- by Bernhard Ambros Ehrlich (1765 - 1827), "Als ich Sie erröthen sah", first published 1792 [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Als ich sie erröten sah", D 153 (1815) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Toen ik haar zag blozen", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "When I saw her blush", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Quand je la vis rougir", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 90
All my efforts, all my life strives after you, admired one! All my senses weave for me your image, o magic one! You inflame my bosom to the harmonies of the lyre, you inspire more than the muses and delight me more than they! Ah, your blue eye radiates mildly through the storm of my soul, and your sweet smile paints a rosy future image for me. Magnificently adorned are the limits of heaven with Aurora's purple light, but a lovelier shine covers your face, when with blissful, intoxicated glances ah, and unspeakably fair, my eyes, full of delight, see you blush with a purple tinge.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Bernhard Ambros Ehrlich (1765 - 1827), "Als ich Sie erröthen sah", first published 1792
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 107