Ravissement (Matthisson, set by (Franz Peter Schubert)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Entzückung

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): CAT DUT ENG FRE

Tag voll Himmel! da aus Lauras Blicken
Mir der Liebe heiligstes Entzücken
In die wonnetrunkne Seele drang!
Und, von ihrem Zauber hingerissen,
Ich der Holden, unter Feuerküssen,
An den süßbeklommnen Busen sank!

Goldner sah ich Wolken sich besäumen,
Jedes Blättchen auf den Frühlingsbäumen
Schien zu flüstern: Ewig, ewig dein!
Glücklicher, in solcher Taumelfülle,
Werd' ich, nach verstäubter Erdenhülle,
Kaum in Edens [Mirtenlauben]¹ seyn.

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Friedrich von Matthisson. Erster Theil. Tübingen, bei Cotta, 1811, page 7; and with Gedichte von Friedrich von Matthisson. Erster Theil. Neueste, sehr vermehrte und vollständigste Ausgabe. Wien 1815. In Commission bey Cath. Gräffer und Härter, page 7.

¹ Matthisson (Wien 1815 edition), and Schubert: "Myrthenlauben"

Note: The initial version of this poem, published 1781 and 1783 with the title Laura, is slightly different and has an additional stanza; see below.

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by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831), "Entzückung", appears in Gedichte aus der Schulzeit (1776-1778) [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

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by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Entzückung", D 413 (1816) [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

Ravissement

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Jour céleste ! Quand par le regard de Laura
Avec le ravissement sacré de l'amour
Dans l'extase mon âme a été pénétrée !
Et emportée par sa magie,
Au milieu de baisers ardents je suis tombé
Sur le sein qui tremblait doucement de ma belle !

J'ai vu les nuages se border d'or ;
Chaque petite feuille sur les arbres printaniers
Semblait chuchoter : « Pour toujours, pour toujours tienne ! »
Ëtre plus heureux, dans un tel vertige,
Après que mon enveloppe terrestre soit devenue poussière,
Je pourrais à peine l'être dans le feuillage de myrtes de l'Éden.

Authorship

Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2012 by Guy Laffaille, (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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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich von Matthisson (1761 - 1831), "Entzückung", appears in Gedichte aus der Schulzeit (1776-1778)

This text was added to the website: 2012-11-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 99