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Heinrich Heine | * Die Lorelei | German | 1823 | Arg-2-2 | 2014-04-23 18:09 Manfred | only this add |
Hans-Georg Kaiser | Lorelay | Esperanto | Arg-564-2 | 2005-02-03 19:18 Manfred | only this add | |
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof | Lorelej | Esperanto | Arg-565-2 | 2009-10-30 16:15 mgr | only this add | |
Leopold Elb | Lorelej' | Esperanto | Arg-71-2 | 2005-02-03 19:06 Manfred | only this add | |
Joachim Gießner | Lorelejo | Esperanto | Arg-1115-2 | 2010-09-15 12:51 Manfred | only this add | |
N. N. 01 | Lurleia | Latin | Arg-179-2 | 2010-02-11 14:00 Manfred | only this add | |
Paul Gottfried Christaller | [Ne scias mi, kio okazis] | Esperanto | Arg-1116-2 | 2010-09-13 10:03 Manfred | only this add | |
Mark Twain | The Lorelei | English | Arg-11-2 | 2003-10-13 04:42 mgr | only this remove | |
L. W. Garnham | The Lorelei | English | Arg-14-2 | 2003-10-11 23:04 mgr | only this remove |
Heinrich Heine, | Heinrich Heine, | |
translated by Mark Twain | translated by L. W. Garnham | |
An ancient legend of the Rhine | ||
I cannot divine what it meaneth, | I do not know what it signifies. | |
This haunting nameless pain: | That I am so sorrowful? | |
A tale of the bygone ages | A fable of old Times so terrifies, | |
Keeps brooding through my brain: | Leaves my heart so thoughtful. | |
The faint air cools in the gloaming, | The air is cool and it darkens, | |
And peaceful flows the Rhine, | And calmly flows the Rhine; | |
The thirsty summits are drinking | The summit of the mountain hearkens | |
The sunset's flooding wine; | In evening sunshine line. | |
The loveliest maiden is sitting | The most beautiful Maiden entrances | |
High-throned in yon blue air, | Above wonderfully there, | |
Her golden jewels are shining, | Her beautiful golden attire glances, | |
She combs her golden hair; | She combs her golden hair. | |
She combs with comb that is golden, | With golden comb so lustrous, | |
And sings a weird refrain | And thereby a song sings, | |
That steeps in a deadly enchantment | It has a tone so wondrous, | |
The listener's ravished brain: | That powerful melody rings. | |
The doomed in his drifting shallop, | The shipper in the little ship | |
Is tranced with the sad sweet tone, | It effects with woe sad might; | |
He sees not the yawing breakers, | He does not see the rocky slip, | |
He sees but the maid alone: | He only regards dreaded height. | |
The pitiless billwos engulf him!- | I believe the turbulent waves | |
So perish sailor and bark; | Swallow the last shipper and boat; | |
And this, with her baleful singing, | She with her singing craves | |
Is the Lorelei's gruesome work. | All to visit her magic moat. | |
Translation of the German poem "Die Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine (*1797-12-13 - †1856-02-17) into English by Mark Twain. A Tramp Abroad. Vol 1-2. Leibzig: Tauchnitz, 1880 Band I, Mark Twain 1880 (rf. http://www.loreley.com/loreley/marctwai.htm) | Translation of the German poem "Die Lorelei" by Heinrich Heine (*1797-12-13 - †1856-02-17) into English by L. W. Garnham. L.W. Garnham, Bachelor of Arts, LEGENDS OF THE RHINE; mentioned in: A Tramp Abroad. Vol 1-2. Leibzig: Tauchnitz, 1880 Band I, Mark Twain 1880 |