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by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875)

Translation © by Patrick John Corness

Ó naší lásce nekvete

Language: Czech (Čeština)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Ó naší lásce nekvete
To vytoužené štěstí:
A kdyby květlo, na světě
Nebude dlouho kvěsti.

Pročby se slza v ohnivé
Polibky vekrádala?
Proč by's mě v plné lásce své
Ouzkostně objímala?

Ó trpké je to loučení,
Kde naděj nezakyne:
Tu srdce cítí ve chvění,
Že brzo bídně zhyne.

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Confirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 62. Note: the website antonin-dvorak.cz leaves out "na světě" in stanza 1, line 3.

Text Authorship:

by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 8 [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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Ó, naší lásce nekvete", B. 11 no. 8 (1865) [ voice and piano ], from Cypřiše, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Ó, naší lásce nekvete", op. 83 no. 1, from Písně milostné, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Djordje Nesic) (Hannah Sharene Penn) , "Ah, our love does not blossom", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "The happiness that was our wish", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 12
Word count: 48

The happiness that was our wish

Language: English after the Czech (Čeština)

The happiness that was our wish
our love does not yet fulfil.
If in this world it did flourish
it would bloom just a short while.

Why would a tear steal its way
into a passionate kiss?
If it loves me so, then o why
hold me in anxious embrace?

O, parting is bitter indeed
when no hope seems to beckon;
then the trembling heart feels afraid
of death in misery soon.

Text Authorship:

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a text in Czech (Čeština) by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 8
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 72