The lover (Hölty, set by Johann Anton André, August Harder, Franz Peter Schubert) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776) and by Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Beglückt, beglückt

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): CAT DUT ENG FRE

Beglückt, beglückt,
Wer dich erblickt,
Und deinen Himmel trinket;
[Wem]¹ dein Gesicht
Voll Engellicht
Den Gruß des Friedens winket.

Ein süsser Blick,
Ein Wink, ein Nick,
Glänzt mir wie Frühlingssonnen;
Den ganzen Tag
Sinn' ich ihm nach,
Und schweb' in Himmelswonnen.

Dein holdes Bild
Führt mich so mild
An sanfter Blumenkette;
In meinem Arm
Erwacht es warm,
Und geht mit mir zu Bette.

Beglückt, beglückt,
Wer dich erblickt,
Und deinen Himmel trinket;
[Wen]² süsser Blick
Und Wink und Nick
Zum süssern Kusse winket.

A. Harder sets stanzas 1-3, 1

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Ludewig Heinrich Christoph Hölty. Besorgt durch seine Freunde Friederich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg und Johann Heinrich Voß. Hamburg, bei Carl Ernst Bohn. 1783, pages 180-181.

This is the version of Hölty's poem heavily reworked by Voß. For the original version, see below.

¹ Schubert (AGA): "Wenn"
² Schubert: "Wem"

Authorship

by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Der Liebende", written 1776 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
by Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826), "Der Liebende", written 1776 [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 Johann Anton André (1775 - 1842), "Der Liebende", c1818. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by August Harder (1775 - 1813), "Die Liebe", stanzas 1-3,1 [voice and piano], in the collection Lieder mit Belgleitung des Pianoforte, no. 3, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Der Liebende", D. 207 (1815), published 1894. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2018-01-14 09:30:34
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Word count: 83

The lover

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Fortunate, fortunate is he
who catches sight of you,
and drinks in your Heaven,
when your face,
suffused in angel-light
beckons with a greeting of peace.

A sweet gaze,
A sign, a nod,
shines upon me like the spring sun.
The entire day
I will contemplate it,
and float in heavenly bliss.

Your lovely image
will lead me mildly
by a gentle flower-chain;
In my arms
it awakens warm,
and goes with me to bed.

Fortunate, fortunate is he
who catches sight of you,
and drinks in your Heaven,
whom a sweet gaze
and a sign and a nod
lures to sweeter kisses.

Authorship

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on

a text in German (Deutsch) by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Der Liebende", written 1776 and by Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826), "Der Liebende", written 1776

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:34
Line count: 24
Word count: 103