Soft songs I sing to you at night

Soft songs I sing to you at night -

songs that no mortal ear can detect,

nor star, peering down and watching,

nor moon, floating silently in the sky;

songs that none but one's own heart

that is dreaming them, listens for in deep sorrow,

and on which none but the pain

that has devised them, sorrowfully intoxicates oneself.

Soft songs I sing to you at night,

to you, in whose eyes my senses immersed themselves,

and from whose deep, dark well

my soul drank eternal longing.