Across the sea (Lemcke, set by (Johannes Brahms)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Karl von Lemcke (1831 - 1913)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Über die See

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): DUT ENG FRE

Über die See,
Fern über die See,
Ist mein Schatz gezogen,
[Ist]¹ mein Herz
Voll Ach und Weh,
Bang ihm nachgeflogen.

Brauset das Meer,
Wild brauset das Meer,
Stürme dunkel jagen,
[Sinkt]² die Sonn',
Die Welt wird leer,
Muß mein Herz verzagen.

Bin ich allein,
Ach, immer allein,
Meine Kräfte schwinden.
[Muß]³ zurück
In matter Pein,
Kann dich nimmer finden.

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ Brahms: "Ist ihm"
² Brahms: "sinket"
³ Brahms: "Muß ich"

Authorship

by Karl von Lemcke (1831 - 1913), "Über die See", appears in Lieder und Gedichte, in 6. Vermischte Gedichte, first published 1861 [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), "Über die See", op. 69 (Neun Gesänge) no. 7 (1877), published 1877 [voice and piano], Berlin, Simrock [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Across the sea", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Sur la mer", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Over de zee", copyright © 2015, (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: 18
Word count: 60

Across the sea

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Across the sea,
Far across the sea,
My sweetheart has gone;
My heart is
Full of sorrow and woe,
And it has flown after him fearfully.

The sea storms,
Wildly storms the sea;
Tempests chase darkly,
The sun sinks,
The world becomes empty,
And my heart despairs.

I am alone,
Ah, ever alone;
My strength is vanishing,
And I must go back
In feeble pain,
For I can never find you.

Authorship

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl von Lemcke (1831 - 1913), "Über die See", appears in Lieder und Gedichte, in 6. Vermischte Gedichte, first published 1861

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 71