Soft grass in my favorite haunts | Soft grass in my favorite haunts

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Weiche Gräser im Revier

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Unknown Language

Our translations: AFR CAT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE ITA

Weiche Gräser im Revier,
schöne, stille Plätzchen!
O, wie linde ruht es hier
sich mit einem Schätzchen!

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Text Authorship:

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Unknown Language by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Russian-Polish" dance song [text unavailable]
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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), "Weiche Gräser im Revier", op. 65 no. 8 (1875), published 1875 [ vocal quartet and piano four-hands or instrumental ensemble ], from Neue Liebeslieder, no. 8, Berlin, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]

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

AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Soft grass in my favorite haunts", copyright ©
ENG English [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Un campo di morbida erba", copyright © 2012, (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: 4
Word count: 17

Soft grass in my favorite haunts

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 Soft grass in my favorite haunts,
 fair, quiet spots!
 O how pleasant it is to linger here
 with one's darling!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Unknown Language by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Russian-Polish" dance song [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 20