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Du warst ja meine einz'ge Blume; Verwelkt bist du -- kahl ist mein Leben! Du warst für mich die strahlende Sonne, Du schiedst -- ich bin von Nacht umgeben! Warst meiner [Phantasie die]1 Schwinge, Du brachst -- ich kann nun nimmer fliegen! Du warst die Wärme meines Blutes; Du flohst -- ich muß dem Frost erliegen!
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Dichtungen von Alexander Petöfi. Aus dem Ungarischen, in eigenen und fremden Übersetzungen herausgegeben von Karl Maria Kertbeny, Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1858, page 152.
1 Nietzsche: "Seele leichteste"Text Authorship:
- by Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824 - 1882), no title, appears in Dichtungen von Alexander Petőfi, in Cypressenblätter vom Grabe Etelka's, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Verwelkt", NWV 24 (1864) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (John H. Campbell) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Michael Berridge) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Fanée", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Nuvytus", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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You were my only flower; now you are faded - cold is my life! You were for me the radiant sun, you parted - I am engulfed by night! You gave my fantasy wings, you broke - now I can fly no longer! You were the warmth of my blood, you fled - I must succumb to frost!
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Translation of title "Verwelkt" = "Faded"Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824 - 1882), no title, appears in Dichtungen von Alexander Petőfi, in Cypressenblätter vom Grabe Etelka's, no. 5
Based on:
- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), no title
This text was added to the website: 2024-05-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 54