Ah, pure maiden | Ah, pure maiden, my heart is set upon you alone

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by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ach Mädli rein, ich hab' allein auf dich...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ach Mädli rein, ich hab' allein auf dich mein Herz gerichtet: 
Mein Kopf ist dein, mein Herz ist dein und was es denkt und dichtet. 
Ich staune mich gewaltiglich, wie rasch das ist gegangen: 
Ich grüßte dich, du grüßtest mich, -- da war ich schon gefangen. 
Nun bin ich dein, wie ein Mückelein, das in süßen Wein gesunken: 
Nun saug' ich ein die Süße dein, bis daß ich bin ertrunken.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Felix Dahn's Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts, Band XVI, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1898, page 68.

Text Authorship:

by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 11 [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 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (1842 - 1899), "Ach Mädli rein ", op. 6a no. 3, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Schlichte Weisen für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, Berlin, Schlesinger ; note: we've added an 'a' to the opus because this opus was used by another publisher a few years later [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Ah, pure maiden", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Ah, pure maiden

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Ah, pure maiden, my heart is set upon you alone:
My head is yours, my heart is yours and what it thinks and all its endeavours.
I am mightily astonished at how rapidly it happened:
I greeted you, you greeted me, -- then I was already a captive.
Now I am yours like a little mosquito that has sunk into sweet wine:
Now I shall inhale all your sweetness until I have drowned.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 11
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-27
Line count: 6
Word count: 72