The glow of love | Down the street where my beloved lives

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Die Straße hinab, wo die Liebste wohnt

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

  Die Straße hinab, wo die Liebste wohnt,
Tief rück' ich in's Gesicht den Hut,
Zu bergen ihrer Mutter so
In meinem Blicke die Minnegluth.

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Confirmed with G.Fr. Daumer, Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte - Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, Hamburg: Bei Hoffmann und Campe, 1846, page 199.

Text Authorship:

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, in Zigeunerisch, no. 2 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Anton Rückauf (1855 - 1903), "Minnegluth", op. 17 no. 2, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Zigeunerlieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The glow of love", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 25

The glow of love

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

  Down the street where my beloved lives,
I pull my hat well over my face,
In that way to hide from her mother 
The glow of love in my gaze.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, in Zigeunerisch, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2024-04-10
Line count: 4
Word count: 31