À Diane en colère | Oui, tends ton arc pour me tuer

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by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Der zürnenden Diana

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Ja, spanne nur den Bogen, mich zu tödten,
Du himmlisch Weib! im [zornigen]¹ Erröthen
Noch reitzender. Ich werd' es nie bereuen:

Daß ich dich sah am [buschigen]² Gestade
Die Nymphen überragen in dem Bade;
Der Schönheit Funken in die Wildniß streuen.

Den Sterbenden wird noch dein Bild erfreuen.
Er athmet reiner, [athmet]³ freyer,
Wem du gestrahlet ohne Schleyer.

Dein Pfeil, er traf - doch linde rinnen
Die warmen Wellen aus der Wunde:
Noch zittert vor den matten Sinnen
Des Schauens süße letzte Stunde.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Johann Mayrhofer. Wien. Bey Friedrich Volke. 1824, page 158. Note: contemporary German would change the following spellings: "tödten" -> "töten", "Erröthen" -> "Erröten", "athmet" -> "atmet", "freyer" -> "freier", "Schleyer" -> "Schleier".

Please note: the title of this poem is not a mistake, as many have written to tell us. "Der" is the feminine dative case of the definite article; and the adjective that follows uses the proper matching weak-inflection ending.

¹ Schubert: "zürnenden"
² Schubert: "blühenden"
³ Schubert: "er athmet"

Text Authorship:

by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836), "Der zürnenden Diana" [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Der zürnenden Diana", op. 36 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1, D 707 (1820), published 1825 [ voice, piano ], Cappi und Comp., VN 60, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 85

À Diane en colère

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Oui, tends ton arc pour me tuer,
Femme divine ! dans la rougeur pleine de colère
Tu es encore plus désirable. Je ne regretterai jamais :

De t'avoir vue sur la rive pleine de buissons,
Dominant les nymphes pendant leur bain,
Répandant des étincelles de beauté dans la région sauvage.

Ton image réjouira le mourant.
Il respire plus purement, il respire plus librement,
Celui devant qui tu as brillé sans voile.

Ta flèche, elle a frappé -- mais doucement coulent
Des vagues tièdes de la blessure :
Mes sens faiblissant tremblent encore
En regardant ce dernier doux moment.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836), "Der zürnenden Diana"
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This text was added to the website: 2010-12-14
Line count: 13
Word count: 94