Flower song | It is almost half of heaven's kingdom

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by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Blumenlied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Es ist ein halbes Himmelreich,
Wenn, Paradiesesblumen gleich,
Aus Klee die Blumen dringen;
Und wenn die Vögel silberhell
Im Garten hier, und dort am Quell,
Auf Blütenbäumen singen.

Doch holder blüht ein edles Weib,
Von Seele gut, und schön von Leib,
In frischer Jugendblüte.
Wir lassen alle Blumen stehn,
Das liebe Weibchen anzusehn,
Und freun uns ihrer Güte.

Confirmed with Gedichte von Ludewig Heinrich Christoph Hölty. Besorgt durch seine Freunde Friederich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg und Johann Heinrich Voß. Carlsruhe, bey Christian Gottlieb Schmieder, 1784, page 152.

First published in this version edited by Voß. Hölty's original version, with the title Minnelied, is slightly different; see below.

Text Authorship:

by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Blumenlied", written 1773 [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 Gustav Blasser , "Blumenlied", op. 20 (Hölty-Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 7, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Kratochwill [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Blumenlied", D 431 (1816), published 1887 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Robert Lucas Pearsall.

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 58

Flower song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 It is almost half of heaven's kingdom
 When, like blossoms of paradise,
 the flowers emerge from the clover;
 And when the birds sing with silvery voices,
 in the garden here and there, by the stream,
 in the blossoming trees.

 Yet even lovelier blossoms the noble lady,
 Goodhearted and fair,
 In the fresh bloom of youth.
 We let the flowers be
 To gaze at this lovely little woman,
 And delight in her goodness.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Blumenlied", written 1773
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 73