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from Volkslieder (Folksongs)
Translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803)

Im säuselnden Winde, am murmelnden Bach
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
Im säuselnden Winde, am murmelnden Bach
Saß Lila auf Blumen und weinet und sprach:
Was blüht ihr, ihr Blumen? Was säuselt du West?
Was murmelst du Strom, der mich murmelnd verläßt.

Mein Lieber, er blühte am Herzen mir hier,
War frisch wie die [Welle]1, war lieblicher mir
Als Zephir; o Zephir, wo flohest du hin?
O Blume der Liebe, du mußtest verblüh'n!

Vom Busen, vom Herzen riß ab sie den Strauß,
Und seufzet und weinet die Seele sich aus.
Was weinst in die Welle? Was seufzest in Wind?
O Mädchen, Wind, Welle und Leben zerrinnt.

Der Strom kommt nicht wieder, der Westwind verweht,
Die Blume verwelket, die Jugend vergeht,
Gib, Mädchen, die Blume dem Strome, dem West:
Es ist ja nicht Liebe, wenn Liebe verläßt.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   W. Pohl 

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Confirmed with J. G. von Herder's ausgewählte Werke in einem Bande, Stuttgart und Tübingen: J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1844. Appears in Stimmen in Völker in Liedern, in 3. Das dritte Buch. Nordwestliche Lieder, page 371. Note: the title in this edition is "Das traurende Mädchen", but we have corrected the older spelling to the moden "trauernde". Another edition indicates the poem is "Nach einem Gedicht aus Dodsley's Sammlung" (after a poem from Dodsley's collection).

1 Pohl: "Quelle"

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803), "Das trauernde Mädchen", appears in Stimmen der Völker in Liedern, in 3. Das dritte Buch. Nordwestliche Lieder [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English from Volkslieder (Folksongs)  [text unavailable]
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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 Banck (1809 - 1889), "Untreue", op. 7 no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Friedrich Wilhelm Berner (1780 - 1827), "Das Mädchen am Ufer" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Friedrich Hugo, Freiherr von Dalberg (1760 - 1812), "Das Mädchen am Ufer", c1789, published [1795] [ voice and piano or organ or harpsichord ], from Lieder : 1. Sammlung, no. 10, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wilhelm Pohl (1759 - 1807), "Das Mädchen am Ufer", published 1785 [ voice and piano ], in Lieder mit Melodien fürs Clavier von Wilhelm Pohl, Breslau: Leuckart & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739 - 1796), "Das Mädchen am Ufer", published 1784 [ voice and piano ], from Oden und Lieder aus den besten deutschen Dichtern, Erste Sammlung, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751 - 1802), "Das Mädchen am Ufer", published 1786 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf und Zwanzig Lieder. In Musik gesezt von Corona Schröter. [Erste Sammlung], no. 23, Weimar: Annoch bey mir selbst, und in Commission in der Hoffmannischen Buchhandlung [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Josef Antonín Štěpán (1726 - 1797), "Das Mädchen am Ufer", published 1778-9 [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull , Dr Siglind Bruhn

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 127

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