by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
O schaudre nicht! Laß diesen Blick
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
O schaudre nicht! Laß diesen Blick, Laß diesen Händedruck dir sagen, Was unaussprechlich ist: Sich hinzugeben ganz und eine Wonne Zu fühlen, die ewig sein muß! Ewig! -- Ihr Ende würde Verzweiflung sein. Nein! kein Ende. Kein Ende!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Faust in ursprünglicher Gestalt (Urfaust), in: Goethe Faust, kommentiert von Erich Trunz, München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 16., überarbeitete Auflage, 1996, page 403
Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie erster Teil (Part I) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785 - 1859), "Aus Faust", 1842 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Gérard Labrunie) , no title
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