Madrigal | My love, what have I done to you that you wish to punish me so severely?

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by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Mein Lieb, was hab' ich dir gethan, daß...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Mein Lieb, was hab' ich dir gethan, daß du willst so schwer mich strafen?
O sieh mich wieder freundlich an, ich kann nicht wachen, nicht schlafen. 
Es geht ja nicht um Recht und Recht, wo sich zwei Herzen lieben: 
Wer also liebt, versteht es schlecht, wär' besser davon geblieben!

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Confirmed with Felix Dahn's Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts, Band XVI, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1898, page 72.

Text Authorship:

by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 24 [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 Martin Grabert (1868 - 1951), "Madrigal", op. 6, published 1894 [ ssatbb chorus ], Berlin: Sulzbach [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Madrigal", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-29
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Madrigal

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

My love, what have I done to you that you wish to punish me so severely?
Oh gaze kindly upon me once more, I cannot wake nor sleep.
It is not a matter of who is right when two hearts love each other:
Who loves thus, does not understand loving, would have done better to stay away from [love]!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 24
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-29
Line count: 4
Word count: 59