A sweet secret dwells within my breast

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by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Aus Byrons Corsar

(Sung text for setting by J. Lang)

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Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: ENG

"Ein süß Geheimniß wohnt in meiner Brust,
Das nimmer kommt an's Licht in Ewigkeit,
Und wenn du mich umfängst in sel'ger Lust,
Dann naht's -- doch rasch entflieht es wieder weit.

Es brennt tief -- tief in mir; wie Grabeslicht,
So glimmt das Flämmchen still und unbekannt;
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

German text confirmed with Lord Byron’s sämmtliche Werke . Nach den Anforderungen unserer Zeit neu übersetzt von Mehreren, Dritter Band, Stuttgart: Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1839, page 119.

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Josephine Lang

Text Authorship:

by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864), no title

Based on:

a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), no title, appears in The Corsair, Canto I, xiv
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ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-30
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Word count: 119

A sweet secret dwells within my breast

(Sung text translation for setting by J. Lang)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

"A sweet secret dwells within my breast,
A secret which shall never see the light of eternity,
And when you embrace me in blissful rapture,
Then it nears -- but rapidly it again flees into the distance.

It burns deeply -- deeply within me; like a death candle
Glimmers the little flame, silent and unknown;
But the night of despair does not snuff it out,
Even if now it burns more feebly than it ever has.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864), no title
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), no title, appears in The Corsair, Canto I, xiv
- Go to the text page.

Go to the general single-text view

This text was added to the website: 2016-11-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 146