Text & Translation
Blumengruß
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grüße dich viel tausendmal!
Ich habe mich oft gebücket,
Ach, wohl eintausendmal,
Und ihn ans Herz gedrücket
Wie hunderttausendmal!
Flower greeting
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!
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Blumengruß
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flower greeting
English source:
Richard Stokes
Der Strauß, den ich gepflücket,
May this garland I have gathered
Grüße dich viel tausendmal!
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
Anton von Webern
Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor.
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…