Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte

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

• 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
• GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• 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
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Eduardo Borja Illescas) , "Eres como una flor", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Gerardo Garciacano Hinojosa) (Simone von Büren) , "Eres como una flor", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2018, (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"

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Die ganze Welt ist viel zu groß,
Sie an ein Herz zu fassen;
Dazu genugt nur Gottes Schoß,
Dem bleibt es überlassen;
Ein Menschenherz ist viel zu klein,
Um liebend sich der Welt zu weihn.

Du mußt an eine treue Brust
[Insonders]1 hin dich neigen,
Ihr alle deine Liebeslust
Ausschließlich geben eigen;
Wer so ein Herz am Herzen halt,
Der liebt in Ihm die ganze Welt.

Text Authorship:

• by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), "Liebe im Kleinen"

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Note: sometimes published without a title
¹ when published without a title, "Besonders"

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Ich kann wohl manchmal singen,
Als ob ich fröhlich sei,
Doch heimlich Tränen dringen,
Da wird das Herz mir frei.

[Es]1 lassen Nachtigallen,
Spielt draußen Frühlingsluft,
Der Sehnsucht Lied erschallen
Aus ihres [Kerkers]2 Gruft.

[Da]3 lauschen alle Herzen,
Und alles ist erfreut,
Doch keiner [fühlt]3 die Schmerzen,
Im Lied das tiefe Leid.

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 2. Sängerleben, in Wehmut, no. 1

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

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Weemoed", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
• ENG English [singable] (Shula Keller) , "Melancholy", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Parfois je peux bien chanter", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Max Mader) , "עצבות", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Malinconia", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Vemod", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• POR Portuguese (Português) (Elke Beatriz Riedel) , "Melancolia", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Diego S. Loyola) , "Melancolía", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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¹ Blodek, Hensel, Jensen, Schoeck, Széchényi: "So"
² Blodek, Jensen, Schoeck, Széchényi: "Käfigs"
³ Barth, Hensel: "Es"
⁴ Hensel: "ahnt"

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