A child's smile | When my child in his cradle

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by Hedwig Kiesekamp (1844 - 1919), as Ludwig Rafael

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Kindeslächeln

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Wenn mein Kindlein in der Wiegen
Lächelt still in süßem Traum,
Holde Engel es umspielen
In dem sel'gen Himmelsraum.

Schau ich [dieses]¹ Kinderlächeln,
Schwindet mir der Erde Raum --
Holde Engel leis mir raunen
Sel'ger Kindheit Himmelstraum.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Reger

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Confirmed with Neue Gedichte von L. Rafael, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Breitkopf und Härtel, 1894, page 155.

¹ Reger: "dies"

Text Authorship:

by Hedwig Kiesekamp (1844 - 1919), as Ludwig Rafael, "Kindeslächeln", appears in Neue Gedichte, in Dritte Abtheilung. Vermischtes, in Skizzen aus dem Kinderleben [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 Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Kindeslächeln", op. 76 (Schlichte Weisen) no. 27 (1904) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Somriure d’infant", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A child's smile", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 8
Word count: 36

A child's smile

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

When my child in his cradle
Smiles quietly in a sweet dream,
Lovely angels play about him
In the blessed realm of Heaven.

When I see this smiling of my child,
The earthly realm vanishes for me --
Lovely angels quietly breathe to me
The heavenly dream of blessed childhood.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Hedwig Kiesekamp (1844 - 1919), as Ludwig Rafael, "Kindeslächeln", appears in Neue Gedichte, in Dritte Abtheilung. Vermischtes, in Skizzen aus dem Kinderleben
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This text was added to the website: 2024-07-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 49