Quand je la vis rougir | Tous mes efforts, toute ma vie

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by Bernhard Ambros Ehrlich (1765 - 1827)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

All mein Wirken, all mein Leben

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

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
Uiberdeckt dein Angesicht,
Wenn mit wonnetrunknen Blicken
Ach! und unaussprechlich schön,
Meine Augen voll Entzücken
Purpurn dich erröthen sehn.

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• F. Schubert

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Confirmed 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):

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

Quand je la vis rougir

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Tous mes efforts, toute ma vie
Cherchent à t'atteindre, chère !
Tous mes sens tissent
Pour moi ton portrait, ô enchanteresse !

Tu enflammes mon cœur
Avec le harmonies de la lyre,
Tu inspires plus que les Muses
Et tu me ravis plus qu'elles !

Ah, tes yeux bleus rayonnent
Doucement à travers la tempête de mon âme,
Et ton aimable sourire peint
Pour moi une image rose du futur.

Les limites du ciel sont magnifiquement ornées,
Certes, par la lumière pourpre de l'aurore,
Mais un éclat plus adorable
Recouvre ton visage.

Quand avec des regards ivres de bonheur,
Ah, et quelle beauté indicible c'est
Quand mes yeux pleins de ravissement
Te voient rougir d'une teinte pourpre.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Bernhard Ambros Ehrlich (1765 - 1827), "Als ich Sie erröthen sah", first published 1792
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This text was added to the website: 2010-02-18
Line count: 20
Word count: 114