The one so yearned for (Hölty, set by (Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel)) (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)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Die Ersehnte

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): DUT ENG FRE

Brächte dich meinem Arm der nächste Frühling!
Tönten Vögel aus Blüten mir das Brautlied,
Dann, dann hätt' ich Seliger
Schon auf Erden Wonne des Himmels.

Wonne! sie wird mir Paradiese zaubern!
Wird lustwandeln mit mir in Gärten Gottes,
Wird in meinen Armen gewiegt
Den Frühlingsabend beflügeln.

Komm, dich rufet die Sehnsuchtsträn' im Auge!
Dich dies wallende Herz voll süßer Ahndung,
Trübe floß' mein Leben,
O Himmelsbotin, komm, es zu heitern.

Authorship

by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776) [author's text not yet checked 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 Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Die Ersehnte", op. posth. 9 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1827?), published 1850 [voice and piano], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [ sung text verified 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "The one so yearned for", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "De deerlijk gemiste", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

The one so yearned for

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 If only the next spring would bring you to my arms!
 If only the birds would sing me my wedding song from the blossoms,
 Then, then I would be blessed
 on earth with the bliss of heaven.
 
 Ecstasy! She will conjure paradise for me!
 She will gladly wander with me in God's garden;
 she will rock in my arms
 and give wings to the spring evening.
 
 Come, the tears of yearning in my eye call to you!
 and this fluttering heart, full of sweet foreboding!
 Dismally flowed my life -
 O messenger of heaven, come to cheer it.

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)

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 99