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Verzicht', o Herz, auf Rettung, Dich wagend in der Liebe Meer! Denn tausend Nachen schwimmen Zertrümmert am Gestad' umher!
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Confirmed with G.Fr. Daumer, Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte - Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, Hamburg: Bei Hoffmann und Campe, 1846, page 160.
Text Authorship:
- by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, in Türkisch, no. 5, first published 1846 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Turkish (Türkçe) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), no title, op. 65 no. 1 (1875), published 1875 [ vocal quartet and piano four-hands or instrumental ensemble ], from Neue Liebeslieder, no. 1, Berlin, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Relinquish, o heart, the hope of rescue", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Rinuncia, mio cuore, a salvarti", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 19
Hoop niet, o hart, op redding, Als je je waagt op liefdes zee! Want duizend wrakken drijven Versplinterd langs de kusten heen!
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- Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Dutch (Nederlands) copyright © 2015 by Lau Kanen, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., please ask the copyright-holder(s) directly.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, in Türkisch, no. 5, first published 1846
Based on:
- a text in Turkish (Türkçe) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2015-04-10
Line count: 4
Word count: 22