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It is the pang of separation that spreads throughout the world and gives birth to shapes innumerable in the infinite sky. It is this sorrow of separation that gazes in silence all nights from star to star and becomes lyric among rustling leaves in rainy darkness of July. It is this overspreading pain that deepens into loves and desires, into sufferings and joy in human homes; and this it is that ever melts and flows in songs through my poet's heart.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 84 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 84 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Wendy Hiscocks (b. 1963), "It is the pain of separation", 1998 [ women's chorus a cappella ], from A Tagore Album, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Reginald Lindsey Sweet (1885 - 1950?), "If it is the pang of separation", 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Tagore Poems, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by André Gide (1869 - 1951) , appears in Gitanjali (L'Offrande lyrique), no. 84, first published 1914 ; composed by Henriette Puig-Roget.
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- Also set in Portuguese (Português), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca.
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- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-06-28
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Word count: 81
Es ist der Trennung Pein, die durch das All sich breitet und Formen ohne Zahl in die Unendlichkeit gebiert. Es ist der Trennung Leid, das schweigend allnächtlich blicket starr von Stern zu Stern, und das zur Lyrik wird im Blättersäuseln eines Juliregendunkels. Es ist der Schmerz, der sich, fortwährend, gräbt ein in Lieben und Begehr’n, und in der Menschen Freud und Leid; all dieses ist’s, was sich stets löst und fließet in Liedern durch mein Dichterherz.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 84
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 84 [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2014-07-11
Line count: 11
Word count: 76