by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Franklin Johnson
Seit die Liebste war entfernt
Language: German (Deutsch)
Seit die Liebste war entfernt, Hatt' ich's Lachen ganz verlernt. Schlechten Witz riß mancher Wicht, Aber lachen konnt' ich nicht. Seit ich sie verloren hab, Schafft' ich auch das Weinen ab; Fast vor Weh das Herz mir bricht, Aber weinen kann ich nicht.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 139.
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 35 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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Since my love now loves me not
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Since my love now loves me not, How to laugh I have forgot; Jests no more my griefs beguile, For I cannot, cannot smile. Since my love now loves me not, How to weep I have forgot; Broken is my heart with woe, But my tears refuse to flow.
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View text with all available footnotesText Authorship:
- by Franklin Johnson , "Seit die Liebste war entfernt", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 68, first published 1887 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 35
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