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Paa Stranden skælver ej det mindste Blad

Language: Danish

Paa Stranden skælver ej det mindste Blad;
Her ruller Søen sølvblank ud sit Bad,
Og Solnedgangen lejrer sig derover.
I Himlen smeltes ind de bløde Vover,
Du skuer mod uendelige Sletter
Af Barndomsminder uden mørke Pletter,
Vemodig glad: -
De lyse- Nætter, ak de lyse Nætter!


Authorship

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Set in English, a translation of Friedrich Christian Delius (1943-) ENG

Date added to the website: 2007-04-25.

Summer nights

Language: English

No leaflet stirs upon the silent shore,
The silvery ocean throbs upon the sands,
And red glows the sunset over yonder.
The heavens seem to melt into the waves;
Then softly from the past a host of memories
Of happy childhood throng upon me,
Half sad, half glad, those summer nights,
Oh! Those twilight nights!


Input by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Authorship Based on

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Date added to the website: 2007-04-25.