by Walther von der Vogelweide (1170? - 1228?)
Translation by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
Under the lime‑tree, on the daisied...
Language: English after the Mittelhochdeutsch
Under the lime-tree, on the daisied ground,
Two that I know of made their bed;
There you may see, heaped and scattered round,
Grass and blossoms, broken and shed,
All in a thicket down in the dale;
Tandaradei --
Sweetly sang the nightingale.
Ere I set foot in the meadow, already
Some one was waiting for somebody;
There was a meeting -- O gracious Lady!
There is no pleasure again for me.
Thousands of kisses there he took,
-- Tandaradei --
See my lips, how red they look!
Leaf and blossom he had pulled and piled
For a couch, a green one, soft and high;
And many a one hath gazed and smiled,
Passing the bower and pressed grass by;
And the roses crushed hath seen,
-- Tandaradei --
Where I laid my head between.
In this love passage, if any one had been there,
How sad and shamed should I be!
But what were we a doing alone among the green there,
No soul shall ever know except my love and me,
And the little nightingale.
-- Tandaradei --
She, I think, will tell no tale.
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849), "Song: Translated from the German of Walther von der Vogelweide", appears in The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, first published 1851 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Mittelhochdeutsch by Walther von der Vogelweide (1170? - 1228?), "Under der linden"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Stephen Dodgson (b. 1924), "Tandaradei", first performed 1957 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Songs to Words by T. L. Beddoes [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Pannier (1854 - 1931) , "Unter der Linden" ; composed by Engelbert Humperdinck, Hans Erich Pfitzner.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) , "Die verschwiegene Nachtigall", first published 1857 ; composed by August Bungert, Ferruccio Busoni, August Fischer, Edvard Grieg, Robert Kahn, Joseph Pembaur, Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson, as Henry Handel Richardson, Hermann Riedel, Hans Michael Schletterer, Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Max Stange, Julius Steenburg, Anton Urspruch.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , text arranged by Heinz Knorr from the version by Max Wehrli, in Deutsche Lyrik des Mittelalters, published by Manesse-Bibliothek der Weltliteratur, 1955 ; composed by Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann, Mathilde von Kralik, Stephan Krehl, Hermann Reutter.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Bruno Obermann , "Unter der Linde", first published 1886 ; composed by Franz Dannehl, Anton Rückauf, Eduard Schütt.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Bernhard Horwitz, Johann Lewalter.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by (Johann Christoph) Friedrich Haug (1761 - 1829) , "Das Geheimniss, nach Walter von der Vogelweide" [an adaptation] ; composed by Norbert Burgmüller, Eduard Kremser, Eduard Kreuzhage.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) , first published 1869 ; composed by Paul Geisler, Wilhelm Kienzl.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-29
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