by
Ottilie Kleinschrod, née Stieler (1830 - 1913), as Ottilie Malybrok-Stieler
Frühling
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Küßt der Sonnenschein die Erde,
Fühlt sie seine Glutgewalt:
Dann entkeimen ihrem Schoße
Blumen bunt und mannigfalt.
So auch keimt in Deiner Nähe
Lied auf Lied aus meiner Brust;
Fühl' ich Deines Auges Flammen,
Athm' ich Deines Wesens Lust.
Fehlt das Sonnenlicht der Erde,
Hat sie nicht ein grünes Blatt,
Wie mein Herz, von Dir geschieden,
Weder Lenz noch Lieder hat.
Confirmed with O. Malybrok-Stieler, Lyrische Gedichte und Uebertragungen nach böhmischer Kunst- und Volks-Poesie, Prag: Druck und Verlag von J. Otto, 1887, page 14.
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Spring
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
When the sunshine kisses the earth
It feels [the sun’s] radiant power:
Then from its womb arise
Flowers, colourful and manifold.
Thus when I am near you,
Song upon song arises in my breast;
When I feel the flames of your eyes,
I breathe in the rapture of your being.
When the earth is lacking sunlight,
It has not a single green leaf,
Just as my heart, separated from you,
Has neither spring nor songs.
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