Als er, Sami, mit dir jüngst Blumen...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Als [er]1, Sami, mit dir jüngst Blumen brach in dem Garten,
Stach [ihn]2 ein Bienchen, und heiß schmerzte die blutende Hand.
Weise [rietest du ihm]3 mit Erde zu kühlen die Wunde,
Und der brennende Schmerz schwand, und die Wunde ward heil.
Sami, wird auch die Wunde, die in dem Herzen ihm blutet,
Dann erst gekühlet und heil, wenn sie die Erde bedeckt?
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Confirmed with Goethes Werke, herausgegeben im Auftrage der Grossherzogin Sophie von Sachsen, Band 5 (Volume 5), Erste Abtheilung (Part 1), Weimar, Hermann Böhlau, 1893, page 49.
Note: see also the extremely similar poem by Justus Friedrich Zehelein titled Der Bienenstich.
1 Blum, Sterkel: "ich"; further changes may exist for Blum, not shown above.
2 Sterkel: "mich"
3 Sterkel: "rieth'st du mir"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Carl Blum (1786 - 1844), "An Sami", op. 23 (Balladen, Romanzen und Lieder, drittes Heft) no. 9 (1818) [ voice and guitar ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "An Sami", op. 104 (3 Gedichte von Göthe, für 2 Soprane mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2 (1844), published 1845 [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], Hannover, Bachmann [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johann Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817), "Der Bienenstich" [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John H. Campbell) (W. Kommer) , "To Sami", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 66
To Sami
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
When recently Sami and you picked flowers in the garden,
a bee stung him, and hotly the bleeding hand ached.
Wisely, you did advise him, to cool the wound with earth,
and the burning pain dwindled, and the wound was healed.
Sami! Sami, will also the bleeding wound of the heart,
then first be cooled and healed, when it is covered with earth?
Text Authorship:
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 64
