Shelley-liederen

Song Cycle by Marie Cornélie Cathérine Reynvaan (1854 - 1934)

1. Song  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
A widow bird sate mourning for her love
  Upon a wintry bough,
The frozen wind crept on above;
  The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
  No [flower]1 upon the ground
And little motion in the air,
  Except the mill-wheel's sound.

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  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Un passero solitario il suo amore lamenta", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Treharne: "flowers".

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1. Liedje

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Verlaten vogelijn treurd'om haar lief op winterdorren boom
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2. On Fanny Goodwin  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Her voice did quiver as we parted,
    Yet knew I not that heart was broken
From which it came, and I departed
    Heeding not the words then spoken.
        Misery — O Misery,
        This world is all too wide for thee.

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Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oxford University Press, 1914.


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2. Op Fanny Goodwin

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Haar stemme trilde toen wij scheidden
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3. To...  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Music, when soft voices die,	
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so [thy]1 thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

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  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Musik, wenn leise Stimmen ersterben ...", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Bridge: "my"

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3. Aan...

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Weggestorven zacht gezing... trilt nog in herinnering
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4. A dirge  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Rough wind that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all [the]1 night long;
Sad storm whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main, --
Wail, for the world's wrong!

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  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Nářek", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Published by Mrs. Shelley in Posthumous Poems, 1824.

1 omitted by Ives.

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4. Een klaagzang

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Stormwind, die luide loeit, smart te droef voor klacht
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5. To Mary Shelley  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
The world is dreary,
And I am weary
Of wandering on without thee, Mary;
A joy was erewhile
In thy voice and thy smile,
And 'tis gone, when I should be gone too, Mary.

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5. Aan Mary Shelley

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
De wereld is triestig En ik verdrietig
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Total word count: 209