Let nothing disturb thee | Let nothing disturb thee

possibly by Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515 - 1582)

Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

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Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: GER

Nada te turbe.
Nada te espante.
Todo se pasa.
Dios no se muda.
La paciencia
Todo lo alcanza.
Quien a Dios tiene
Nada le falta.
Sólo Dios basta.

Text Authorship:

possibly by Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515 - 1582), from a poem found in a breviary owned by her. [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 Lynn Steele (1951 - 2002), "Breviario" [ soprano and English handbells or harp ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , no title, first published 1871 ; composed by David Conte, David Leo Diamond, Jenö Takacs, Joelle Wallach.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Lynn Steele

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 28

Let nothing disturb thee

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

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Let nothing disturb thee,
Nothing afright thee;
All things are passing;
God never changeth.
Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God sufficeth.

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• D. Conte • J. Wallach

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Confirmed with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poets and Poetry of Europe, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1896, page 886.

Text Authorship:

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), no title, first published 1871 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) possibly by Saint Teresa of Ávila (1515 - 1582)
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-11
Line count: 9
Word count: 32