by
Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Sie floh vor mir wie 'n Reh so scheu
Language: German (Deutsch)
Sie floh vor mir wie 'n Reh so scheu,
Und wie ein Reh geschwinde!
Sie kletterte von Klipp zu Klipp,
Ihr Haar, das flog im Winde.
Wo sich zum Meer der Felsen senkt,
Da hab ich sie erreichet,
Da hab ich sanft mit sanftem Wort
Ihr sprödes Herz erweichet.
Hier saßen wir so himmelhoch,
Und auch so himmelselig;
Tief unter uns, ins dunkle Meer,
Die Sonne sank allmählich.
Tief unter uns, ins dunkle Meer,
Versank die schöne Sonne;
Die Wogen rauschten drüber hin,
Mit ungestümer Wonne.
O weine nicht, die Sonne liegt
Nicht tot in jenen Fluten;
Sie hat sich in mein Herz versteckt
Mit allen ihren Gluten.
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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 Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Sie floh' vor mir wie'n Reh so scheu", 2006, published 2006 [ tenor and piano ], from Seraphine, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Sie floh' vor mir wie'n Reh so scheu", 2007, published c2007-8 [ high voice and piano ], from Verschiedene : vol. 1, Seraphine-Hortense, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Sie floh vor mir", op. 40 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6 (1867?), published 1867 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Édouard de Hartog (1829 - 1909), "Sie floh' vor mir wie'n Reh so scheu", op. 43 (Fünf Lieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Naumann (1827 - 1888), "Sie floh' vor mir wie'n Reh so scheu", op. 27 no. 2, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Strandlieder : Liederzyklus, no. 2, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 108
She fled from me
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
She fled from me like a deer so shy,
and like a deer, so swift!
She scrambled from rock to rock,
her hair flying in the wind.
Where the cliffs drop down to the sea,
there I caught up with her,
there, gently, with kind words
I softened her demure heart.
Here we sat so heavenly high,
and also so heavenly blissful;
deep beneath us into the dark sea,
the sun sank gradually.
Deep beneath us into the dark sea
sank the lovely sun;
the waves roared about
with raging bliss.
O do not cry, the sun does not lie
dead in that flood;
It has hidden itself in my heart
with all its blaze.
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Word count: 116