Submissions by Rosewall, Michael P. ( 142 items: 25 texts and 117 translations )

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Translations of entire song cycles (alphabetic order):

• 7 frühe Lieder: Seven early songs
• Acht frühe Lieder: Eight early songs
• Brettl-Lieder: Brettl Songs
• Cuatro madrigales amatorios: Four Love Madrigals
• Fünf geistliche Lieder: Five spiritual songs
• Poëme d'un jour: Poem of a day
• Via Crucis: The Way of the Cross (or Stations of the Cross)

Texts and Translations

• I was so sad and wistful when you and I first met; title: "Meeting" [translation]
• You tell me to hold my silence; title: "Always" [translation]
• Everything dies so quickly; the rose; title: "Farewell" [translation]
• Life,/ O little life; title: "Little life"
• From where have you come, lover?; title: "From where have you come, lover?" [translation]
• And when I am calm; title: "The bird inside"
• From the poplars have I come, mother; title: "From the poplars have I come, mother" [translation]
• I know what the night bird wants; title: "Night bird"
• My little dog, ten years ago; title: "For a good dog"
• Do you see? There!; title: "All my pretty ones"
• When I remember bygone days; title: "The middle"
• Endless autumn nights; title: "Endless autumn nights"
• You ask me, brothers, why I flinch; title: "Time marches on"
• Late evening finally comes; title: "The one who greets me"
• People expect old men to die; title: "Old men"
• Where is the dark seed; title: "Dark seed"
• I had wanted to hide; title: "In a tree at dawn, to listen to birds"
• The soft autumn winds; title: "Echoes"
• And the birds arrive; title: "And the birds arrive"
• I long for him most; title: "Moonless nights"
• A finch with a broken neck lies by my house; title: "Purple finch"
• I worried: might you; title: "The bashful moon"
• With what shall I bathe; title: "With what shall I bathe" [translation]
• The same day I build; title: "Feeder"
• I cannot ask you; title: "From this world"
• You have slain me; title: "You have slain me" [translation]
• All you faithful, joyful and triumphant [translation]
• The royal standard advances [translation]
• Mother, every night outside my window lattice; title: "Preludes" [translation]
• Do not go into Ormonde forest; title: "Round" [translation]
• Coming to my window grate to look at me; title: "A timid man" [translation]
• I will not forget, in my lifetime; title: "Goya's woman" [translation]
• Oh, cruel Death!; title: "The sorrowful woman no. 1" [translation]
• Ah, man of my life; title: "The sorrowful woman no. 2" [translation]
• Good day, Suzanne, my woodland flower!; title: "Good Day, Susanne" [translation]
• With his four dromedaries; title: "The dromedary" [translation]
• The fleece of this goat, and even that; title: "The Tibetan goat" [translation]
• Behold the fine locust; title: "The locust" [translation]
• Uncertainty, oh my delight; title: "The crawfish" [translation]
• Within your environs, your pools; title: "The carp" [translation]
• I thought I could; title: "Love and hate" [translation]
• Crucify Him!; title: "Station 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross" [translation]
• Above our love; title: "Prospect from above" [translation]
• Do not weep over me; title: "Station 8. Jesus greets the women of Jerusalem" [translation]
• The bouquet that I gathered; title: "Floral greeting" [translation]
• God, God, why have you forsaken me?; title: "Station 12. Jesus dies on the Cross" [translation]
• Summer evening! Holy, golden light!; title: "Summer evening" [translation]
• Hail, Cross, our only hope; title: "Station 14. Jesus is laid in the tomb" [translation]
• My heart is like a sea so broad [translation]
• The day’s work is done; title: "Song of evening" [translation]
• Oh, it is so dark in the chamber of Death; title: "Death" [translation]
• In the half light [translation]
• I am innocent of this righteous man’s blood; title: "Station 1. Jesus is condemned to die" [translation]
• Hail, hail, Cross!; title: "Station 2. Jesus takes up the Cross" [translation]
• Jesus falls [translation]
• O head, covered with blood and wounds; title: "Station 6. Saint Veronica wipes Jesus' face" [translation]
• Out of the white billows of evening; title: "Downward from afar" [translation]
• The old man wished to ride [translation]
• Oh angel, my guardian angel; title: "The guardian angel" [translation]
• In the deep wood, in a thicket of thorn; title: "Sleeping Beauty" [translation]
• A beautiful bird sat in a fir tree [translation]
• Oh, my little hen, peep peep peep!; title: "The hen" [translation]
• The flowers, they sleep [translation]
• A boy spied a tiny rose [translation]
• In Poland there is an inn; title: "Fool's-Paradise (The Land of Cockaigne)" [translation]
• Blue, blue sky. Green, green forest!; title: "Song of spring" [translation]
• O Love, that suffered on the cross; title: "Prayer on Christmas Eve" [translation]
• Even far away you feel so near!; title: "To Suleika" [translation]
• Were beloved nature [translation]
• She stood in the boat and fished; title: "The happy fisher maiden" [translation]
• The shadows of night quickly flee away; title: "Morning greeting" [translation]
• Good evening, dear moonlight [translation]
• And I sit by the open window; title: "Adelheid" [translation]
• Do not go so early to your rest!; title: "Agnes" [translation]
• How beautiful you are, o maiden; title: "Louisa" [translation]
• You blush, my dear. And your colored cheeks; title: "Pauline" [translation]
• O were I on the Neckar, O were I on the Rhine; title: "On the Neckar, on the Rhine" [translation]
• What are you to me?; title: "What are you to me?" [translation]
• As the swallows turn towards home [translation]
• Do I love you? Ask the stars; title: "Irene" [translation]
• On seeing so many lovely maids; title: "Slow waltzes" [translation]
• There on a flat paradeground; title: "Everyone gets what he deserves" [translation]
• O Donal Oge, if you go across the sea; title: "Donal Oge"
• I cried unto God with my voice; title: "I cried unto God"
• The management is pleased to announce; title: "Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub"
• I'll simply watch the animals; title: "From "Requiem""
• I am, you anxious one; title: "I am, you anxious one"
• If I had grown up in a land; title: "If I had grown up"
• My girlfriend has a black cat [translation]
• The king went out for a walk [translation]
• Drummer, let your calfskin ring [translation]
• Woman, don't be such a vain creature; title: "Warning" [translation]
• Miss Gigerlette; title: "Gigerlette" [translation]
• O, how I burn with longing; title: "Galathea" [translation]
• Juana's ways are strange [translation]
• When you wander among the flowers [translation]
• For him, who lost his sweet love [translation]
• I have traveled across the sea [translation]
• Blinded sight, dark light [translation]
• Ring, ring, my tambourine [translation]
• In nature (In green) a fresh courage awakens; title: "In nature" [translation]
• The nightingale was far away; title: "The nightingale" [translation]
• Through waving tree tops; title: "Hunting song" [translation]
• Do you not know the burning desire; title: "Do you not know the burning desire" [translation]
• She carried a falcon on her hand; title: "Waiting" [translation]
• You flowers, intoxicated with spring; title: "In spring" [translation]
• Ah, how quickly the days fly by; title: "In autumn" [translation]
• How very gently the waterway moves!; title: "Parting" [translation]
• Lord, I would like to surrender myself to you; title: "Renunciation" [translation]
• A call roars out like a peal of thunder; title: "The watch on the Rhine" [translation]
• Fare thee well, o maternal Earth; title: "Farewell" [translation]
• Heaven passes me by; title: "Adoration" [translation]
• Becauseall is now so still; title: "Accord" [translation]
• Like a mortally wounded warrior; title: "Final prayer" [translation]
• Your will, Lord, be done!; title: "Submission" [translation]
• And now let the surging surf; title: "Elevation" [translation]
• Arise, beloved children; title: "Song of morning" [translation]
• In God's name, arise; title: "In God's name, arise" [translation]
• My path is now at an end [translation]
• Venture forth, O soul, to your God; title: "Venture forth, O soul, to your God" [translation]
• The cross he was obliged to bear; title: "The cross" [translation]
• In my memory, images yet bloom; title: "In my memory" [translation]
• God, in your heaven I was formed; title: "Ecstasy" [translation]
• Love is like the ocean; title: "Song of praise" [translation]
• Wondrously cool, forested night; title: "Forested night" [translation]
• Young miss, put your knitting down; title: "Please don't!" [translation]
• You cannot believe; title: "Masculine fears" [translation]
• That your gaze might incline to me [translation]
• Two figures pass through the cold and barren wood; title: "Transfigured night" [translation]
• Hark, the low wind laments sadly in the branches [translation]
• Far and wide, there is no one that looks at me [translation]
• My heart is a fathomless pit; title: "My heart is a fathomless pit" [translation]
• A pair of beggars sang by the innkeepers gate; title: "Song of the maiden" [translation]
• April's breeze; title: "A maiden in springtime" [translation]
• The sea sparkled out in the distance; title: "The sea sparkled out in the distance" [translation]
• I, unblessed Atlas!; title: "Atlas" [translation]
• The night is calm, the avenues are quiet; title: "Nemesis" [translation]
• You beautiful fishermaiden; title: "You beautiful fishermaiden" [translation]
• Appearing on the far horizon; title: "Appearing on the far horizon" [translation]
• Rushing torrent; title: "Dwelling" [translation]
• Rustling winds; title: "Spring longing" [translation]
• My songs beckon softly; title: "Serenade" [translation]

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