Time of roses | Now the roses are in bloom

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by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nun stehn die Rosen in Blüte

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Nun stehn die Rosen in Blüte,
[Ein Netz wird bald gewoben sein]¹.
Mein flatterhaft Gemüthe,
Dich fangen sie nicht ein.

Und blieb' ich [Ärmster]² hangen
In dieser jungen Rosenzeit
An schönsten Rosenwangen,
Meine Jugend thäte mir leid.

Ich mag nur lachen und singen,
Durch blühende Wälder schweift mein Lauf;
Mein Herz will sich erschwingen
Bis in die Wipfel hinauf!

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• G. Schumann

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Confirmed with Gesammelte Werke von Paul Heyse. Erster Band. Gedichte, Berlin, Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1872, page 3. Note: modern German would change the following spellings: "Gemüthe" to "Gemüte", "thäte" to "täte", etc.

¹ G. Schumann: "die Liebe webt ihr Netz so fein"
² G. Schumann: "träumend"

Text Authorship:

by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Rosenzeit", appears in Gedichte, in Jugendlieder [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 Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Nun stehn die Rosen in Blüte", op. 46 no. 1 (1906), published 1906 [ voice and piano trio ], from Sieben Lieder mit Klaviertrio nach Paul Heyses "Jungbrunnen", no. 1, Berlin: Verlag von Albert Stahl [sung text checked 1 time]
by Georg Schumann (1866 - 1952), "Rosenzeit", op. 38 (Drei Lieder für Gesang und Klavier) no. 3, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Johannes Brahms, Julius Otto Grimm, Robert Gund, Gustav Hasse, Adolf Jensen, Heinrich von Sahr, Robert Schumann, Clemens Seidel.

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This text was added to the website: 2011-07-02
Line count: 12
Word count: 62

Time of roses

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Now the roses are in bloom,
[A net shall soon be woven]¹.
You, my flighty spirit,
They shall not ensnare!

[And if I, poor chap, were caught]²
By the most beautiful rosy cheeks
In this youthful time of roses,
I should regret my youth.

I only like to laugh and sing,
My way takes me through blossoming woodlands;
My heart wishes to swing itself
All the way up into the tree-tops!

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¹ G. Schumann: "Love weaves its net so delicately"
² G. Schumann: "And if I were dreamily caught"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Rosenzeit", appears in Gedichte, in Jugendlieder
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 74