Sechs Lieder , opus 8

  Du bist wie eine Blume
[So hold und schön und rein;]1
Ich schau' dich an, und Wehmut
Schleicht mir ins Herz hinein.

  Mir ist, als ob [ich]2 die Hände
Aufs Haupt [dir]3 legen sollt',
[Betend]4, daß [Gott dich]5 erhalte
[So rein und schön und hold.]6

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 47, first published 1825

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• CAT Catalan (Català) (Marta Garcia Cadena) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CHI Chinese (中文) (Ting Chung Wang) , "你像朵鮮花", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Wijtse Rodenburg) , "Jij bent als een bloem", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Jij bent mij als een bloemkelk", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Cornelis Petrus Tiele) , "Gelijk een bloeme"
• ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
• ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Thou art, as is a flower", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , "A Flow'ret thou resemblest"
• ENG English [singable] (Charles Fonteyn Manney) , "Thou art lovely as a flower", first published 1911
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "You are like a flower", copyright © 2012
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Valter Juva) , "Kuin kukka olet kaino"
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Tu sei come un fiore", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• POL Polish (Polski) (Aleksander Kraushar) , "Ty jesteś luba", Warsaw, first published 1880
• POL Polish (Polski) (Stanisław Budziński) , "Ty jesteś jakoby kwiecie...", first published 1886
• POL Polish (Polski) (Władysław Bełza) , "Jesteś jak kwiatek wiośniany..."
• POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "És como uma flor", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 136.

¹ Ander: "So schön, so rein und hold"; Chadwick: "So schön, so hold, so rein"; Mayer: "So hold, so schön und rein"; Thuille: "So hold, so schön, so rein"; Unger: "So rein so schön und hold"
² omitted by Hinrichs
³ Hinrichs: "ich dir"
⁴ Dreyschock: "und beten"
⁵ Liszt: "dich Gott"
⁶ Ander: "So hold und schön und rein"; Chadwick, Thuille: "So schön, so hold, so rein"; Mayer: "So rein, so schön und hold"

Gekommen ist der [Maye]1,
Die Blumen und Bäume blühn,
Und durch die Himmelsbläue
Die [rosigen]2 Wolken ziehn.

Die [Nachtigallen]3 singen
Herab aus [der laubigen]4 Höh,
Die weißen Lämmer springen
Im weichen grünen Klee.

[Ich kann nicht singen und springen]5,
Ich liege krank im Gras;
Ich höre fernes Klingen,
Mir träumt, ich weiß nicht was.

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, written 1822, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 5, first published 1822

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• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le mois de mai est arrivé", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke, herausgegeben von Manfred Windfuhr, Band 2, Neue Gedichte, bearbeitet von Elisabeth Genton, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 1983, pages 13-14.

¹ Curschmann, Marek: "Maie"
² Curschmann: "ros'gen"
³ Curschmann: "lust'gen Vöglein"
⁴ Curschmann: "luftiger"
⁵ Curschmann: "Doch ich kann nicht springen und singen"