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Wie im Morgenglanze Du rings mich anglühst, Frühling, Geliebter! Mit tausendfacher Liebeswonne Sich an mein [Herz]1 drängt Deiner ewigen [Wärme]2 Heilig Gefühl, Unendliche Schöne! Daß ich [diesen]3 fassen möcht' In diesen Arm! Ach an deinem Busen Lieg' [ich, schmachte]4, Und deine Blumen, dein Gras Drängen sich an mein Herz. Du kühlst den brennenden Durst meines Busens, Lieblicher Morgenwind! Ruft drein die Nachtigall Liebend nach mir [aus]5 dem Nebelthal. Ich komm', ich komme! [Wohin? Ach]6, wohin? [Hinauf! Hinauf strebt's.]7 Es schweben die Wolken Abwärts, die Wolken Neigen sich der sehnenden Liebe. Mir! Mir! In [euerm]8 Schoße Aufwärts! Umfangend umfangen! Aufwärts an deinen Busen, Alliebender Vater!
Confirmed with Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand. Zweyter Band. Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. 1827, pages 82-83; and with Goethe's Schriften, Achter Band, Leipzig, bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1789, pages 210-211.
1 Schubert: "Herze"2 Stöhr: "Wonne" (typo?)
3 Goethe (1789 and 1806 editions), Schubert, Stöhr: "dich"
4 Schubert: "ich und schmachte"
5 Stöhr: "in"
6 Schubert: "Ach wohin"
7 Schubert: "Hinauf strebt's, hinauf!"
8 Schubert: "eurem"
Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Ganymed", written 1774?, first published 1789 [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 Moritz Hauptmann (1792 - 1868), "Ganymed", op. 19 (Zwölf Gesänge) no. 1, published 1848 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Ganymed", op. 81 (Fünf Lieder für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass) no. 5 (1836-7), published 1842 [ SATB chorus ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Mauke (1867 - 1930), "Ganymed", op. 33 (Drei Gedichte von Goethe für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Challier & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Ganymed", published 1794 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Ganymed", op. 19 (Drei Lieder) no. 3, D 544 (1817), published 1825 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Ganymed", op. 20 (5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Goethe) no. 5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Ganymed", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 50, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Ganimedes", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Ganymedes", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Ganymede", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ganymède", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Max Mader) , "גנימדס", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Ganimede", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Richard Morris , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 31
Word count: 104
How in the morning light you glow around me, beloved Spring! With love's thousand-fold bliss, to my heart presses the eternal warmth of sacred feelings and endless beauty! Would that I could clasp you in these arms! Ah, at your breast I lie and languish, and your flowers and your grass press themselves to my heart. You cool the burning thirst of my breast, lovely morning wind! The nightingale calls lovingly to me from the misty vale. I am coming, I am coming! but whither? To where? Upwards I strive, upwards! The clouds float downwards, the clouds bow down to yearning love. To me! To me! In your lap upwards! Embracing, embraced! Upwards to your bosom, All-loving Father!
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Ganymed", written 1774?, first published 1789
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 31
Word count: 118