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Dein blaues Auge hält so still, Ich blicke bis zum Grund. Du fragst mich, was ich sehen will? Ich sehe mich gesund. Es brannte mich ein glühend Paar, Noch schmerzt das Nachgefühl; Das deine ist wie See so klar Und wie ein See so kühl.
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Confirmed with Klaus Groth's Gesammelte Werke. Vierter Band. Plattdeutsche Erzählungen - Hochdeutsche Gedichte, Kiel und Leipzig, Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, 1893, page 176.
Authorship
- by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in Erstes Fünfzig, in Klänge, no. 11, first published 1854 [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Dein blaues Auge", op. 59 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge) no. 8 (1873), published 1880 [low voice and piano], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [text verified 1 time]
- by Kurt Erickson , "Dein blaues Auge hält so still", first performed 2014 [soprano and piano], from Ich und Du, no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
- by Louis Samson , "Dein blaues Auge hält so still", published 1873 [voice and piano], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. II. Reihe, Heft IV, no. 3, Dresden, Arnold [text not verified]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Your blue eyes", copyright ©
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "I tuoi occhi azzurri", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Tes yeux bleus", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Jouw blauwe ogen", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45
Your blue eyes keep so still That I can gaze upon their very depths. You ask me what I want to see? -- I see my own well-being. A glowing pair burned me once; The after-effect still hurts. Yet your eyes are like a lake so clear, And like a lake, so cool [and detached].
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), no title, appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, in Erstes Fünfzig, in Klänge, no. 11, first published 1854
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 54