Ach Mädli rein, ich hab' allein auf dich...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): 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.
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Confirmed with Felix Dahn's Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts, Band XVI, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1898, page 68.
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- 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.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2019 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-27
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