Langs waar komt het lustbegin?

Langs waar komt het lustbegin
van de heilge zoete min,
's menschen leven kittlend in
langs de ziel of langs den zin?
Straalt het uit een vonklend oog
in een ander stralend oog ?
Sterft in 't oog het minbetoog,
waar het eens zoo warm uit vloog? --
Dat de doodenklok dan bromm'...
Ik begin al: bam, bim, bom!

CHOOR:
 Bam, bim, bom!

Gij, niet door den schijn misleid,
tracht naar geene nieuwigheid,
neem de zoete aanminnigheid,
die u niets dan vreugd bereidt.
Is uw hartewensch voldaan,
waarom blijft ge koeltjes staan?
Zoekt ge lust op uwe baan,
spreek uw lief dan kussend aan.
Dat de levensklokke bromm'...
Ik begin al: bam , bim, bom !

CHOOR
 Bam, bim, bom!

Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1899), "Langs waar komt het lustbegin", appears in Gedichten, in Twaalf liederen van Shakespere, no. 9, first published 1868 [an adaptation] [ author's text checked 1 time]

• a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2 FRE GER ITA
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Joseph W. Baber, Homer Newton Bartlett, Benjamin Britten, Mary Grant Carmichael, Benjamin Carr, Elliott Cook Carter, Jr., Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Barney Childs, John H. Corina, Louis Crerar, William Faulkes, Richard J. Felciano, Hans Gál, John Linton Gardner, Steven R. Gerber, Juliana Hall, Sven Eric Emanuel Johanson, Zoltán Kodály, Robert Matthew-Walker, Francis Poulenc, Humphrey Procter-Gregg, Roger Quilter, Virgil Garnett Thomson. Go to the text.

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

• by Petrus Leonardus Leopoldus "Peter" Benoit (1834 - 1901), "Langs waar komt het lustbegin?", [1872] [low voice and piano], from Vijf Shakespeare-Liederen, no. 1 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Ludwig (Wilhelm) Meyer (1759 - 1840) , no title DUT FRE ITA ; composed by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel.
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