LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,028)
  • Text Authors (19,311)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,112)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Robert Eduard Prutz (1816 - 1872)

Treue Liebe
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Das ist der Liebe schönstes Recht,
Daß sie verzeihet und vergißt;
Der liebt nicht treu, der liebt nicht echt,
Der diese Tiefe nicht ermißt.

Und schmerzt die Wunde noch so sehr,
Die der Geliebten Hand Dir schlug,
Von der Geliebten kommt sie her,
Das sei des Trostes dir genug.

Und wenn sie gar nicht heilen will,
Wolan, so stirb; doch stirb so still,
Daß nie ein Mensch errathen kann,
Selbst die Geliebte nicht, woran.

Confirmed with Prutz, Robert Eduard. Buch der Liebe, Dritte Auflage, Leipzig: Verlag von Ernst Keil, 1874, page 81.

Note to stanza 2, line 2: the word "Wolan" would be modernized to "Wohlan"


Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Eduard Prutz (1816 - 1872), "Treue Liebe", appears in Buch der Liebe, in 2. Zweites Buch [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 Ernest Nikolayevich Merten (1814 - 1876), "Treue Liebe", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-09-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 74

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris