Madrigal | Into the yoke I humbly bow my neck

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by Sophie Hasenclever (1824 - 1892)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ins Joch beug' ich den Nacken demuthvoll

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: DUT ENG FRE

Ins Joch beug' ich den Nacken demuthvoll,
Beug' lächelnd vor dem Mißgeschick dies Haupt,
Dies Herz das liebt und glaubt,
Vor meiner Feindin.  Wider diese Qual
Bäum' ich mich nicht mit Groll,
Mir bangt viel mehr, sie lindre sich einmal.
Wenn deines Auges Strahl
Dies Leid verwandelt hat in Lebenssaft,
Welch Leid hat dann zu töten mich die Kraft?

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Confirmed with Sämmtliche Gedichte Michelangelo's in Guasti's Text, mit deutscher Übersetzung von Sophie Hasenclever, Leipzig: Verlag von Alphons Dürr, MDCCCLXXV (1885), page 71.

Text Authorship:

by Sophie Hasenclever (1824 - 1892), no title, appears in Sämmtliche Gedichte Michelangelo's in Guasti's Text, in 2. Madrigale, no. 33 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 138
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Madrigal", op. 31 (Fünf Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier) no. 1 (1917) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Madrigal", op. 15 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1 (1886) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Madrigal", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Madrigal", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-10-19
Line count: 9
Word count: 59

Madrigal

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Into the yoke I humbly bow my neck,
Bow this my head smilingly before my misfortune,
[Bow] this my heart that loves and has faith
Before my [enemy]¹.  Against this agony
I do not rebel with rancour,
Rather, I am afraid that it will once
Be assuaged when the beam of your eyes
Has transformed this suffering into my lifeblood,
What suffering then has the power to kill me?

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¹ In the German the enemy in this text is feminine.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Sophie Hasenclever (1824 - 1892), no title, appears in Sämmtliche Gedichte Michelangelo's in Guasti's Text, in 2. Madrigale, no. 33
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 138
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2013-02-25
Line count: 9
Word count: 71