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Du milchjunger Knabe, Wie schaust du mich an? Was haben deine Augen Für eine Frage getan! Alle Ratsherrn in der Stadt Und alle Weisen der Welt Bleiben stumm auf die Frage, Die deine Augen gestellt! Eine Meermuschel liegt Auf dem Schrank meiner Bas': Da halte dein Ohr d'ran, Dann hörst du etwas!
Authorship:
- by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), "Therese", appears in Neuere Gedichte, in Von Weibern - Alte Lieder, no. 3, first published 1851 [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Therese", op. 86 (Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1878) [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Robert Fischhof, Max Oberleithner, Hans Erich Pfitzner, Franz Philipp, Richard Schweizer, Christian Sinding, Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer, Otto Vrieslander, Hugo Wolf.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Teresa", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Therese", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "You milk-young boy, why do you look at me so?", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Thérèse", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 52
You milk-young boy, why do you look at me so? What a question your eyes have asked! All the councilmen in the town and all the wisemen in the world Would be struck dumb by the question that your eyes have posed! A seashell lies upon my cousin's cupboard; Press your ear to it; then you'll hear something!
Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Gottfried Keller (1819 - 1890), "Therese", appears in Neuere Gedichte, in Von Weibern - Alte Lieder, no. 3, first published 1851
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 58