Blumengruss
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grüße dich vieltausendmal!
Ich habe mich oft gebücket,
Ach, wohl eintausendmal,
Und ihn ans Herz gedrücket
Wie hunderttausendmal!
Flower Greeting
(2005)
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Greet you many thousand times!
I have often stooped down,
Ah, at least a thousand times,
And pressed it to my heart
Something like a hundred thousand!
Blumengruss
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flower Greeting (2005)
English source:
Richard Stokes
Der Strauß, den ich gepflücket,
May this garland I have gathered
Grüße dich vieltausendmal!
Greet you many thousand times!
Ich habe mich oft gebücket,
I have often stooped down,
Ach, wohl eintausendmal,
Ah, at least a thousand times,
Und ihn ans Herz gedrücket
And pressed it to my heart
Wie hunderttausendmal!
Something like a hundred thousand!
Composer
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the…
Poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on…