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by Václav Hanka (1791 - 1861)

Kytice
Language: Czech (Čeština) 
Věje větřieček s kniežeckých lesóv,
běže zmilitka ku potoku,
nabiera vody v kovaná vědra.
Po vodě k děvě kytice plyje,
kytice vonná z viol a róží.
I je sě děva kyticu loviť,
spade, ach! spade v chladnú vodicu.

Kdabych věděla, kytice krásná!
kto tebe v kyprú zemicu sáze,
tomu bych dala prstének zlatý.

Kdabych věděla, kytice krásná,
kto tebe lýkem hebúčkým sváza:
tomu bych dala jehlicu z vlasóv.

Kdabych věděla, kytice krásná,
kto tě po chladnej vodici pusti:
tomu bych dala vienek svój z hlavy.

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Confirmed with Rukopis královédvorský. Nejprvnější ilustrované vydání, Praha, I. L. Kober, 1873, page 60. Note: from the Rukopis královédvorský, or the Dvůr Králové Manuscript, claimed by Hanka to be a 13th-century manuscript he had discovered but regarded by modern scholars as an elaborate forgery by him.


Text Authorship:

  • by Václav Hanka (1791 - 1861), "Kytice", first published 1818 [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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Kytice", op. 7 no. 1, B. 30 no. 1, published 1872, from Písně z rukopisu Královédvorského, no. 1, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Kytice", H. 204 (1875), published 1876 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) , "Das Sträuschen", subtitle: "Alt böhmisch", appears in Goethe's Werke. Vollständige Ausgabe, letzter Hand, Band III, in 7. Aus fremden Sprachen [an adaptation] ; composed by Adalbert von Goldschmidt, Karl Friedrich Zelter.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), [adaptation] ; composed by Antonín Dvořák.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English [singable] (Natalie Macfarren) , "The flowery message"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-25
Line count: 16
Word count: 86

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