Geen van Schoonheids dochters vele

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by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

There be none of Beauty's daughters

(Sung text for setting by F. Mendelssohn)

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Language: English

Our translations: CAT DUT ITA

There be none of Beauty's daughters
  With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
  Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charm'd ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:

And the midnight moon is weaving
  Her bright chain o'er the deep;
Whose breast is gently heaving
  As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

Composition:

Felix Mendelssohn

Text Authorship:

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Stanzas for music", appears in Poems, first published 1816

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky pro hudbu"
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Stances à mettre en musique"
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Fra tutte le più belle", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 16
Word count: 91

Geen van Schoonheids dochters vele

(Sung text translation for setting by F. Mendelssohn)

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Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the English

Geen van Schoonheids dochters vele
Is betoov’rend als jij;
Hoor 'k muziek op ’t water spelen:
Zo is jouw stem voor mij.
’t Is alsof jouw zoete tonen
De golven intomen;
De zee ligt stil te blinken
En de winden gaan zinken;

En de hoge maan werpt over 
De zee stralend een lint;
Haar borst is stijgend, dalend
Als een kalm slapend kind:
Dus mijn geest komt voor jou buigen,
Jou horen, eer betuigen,
Met emotie vol verfijning,
Als een zee in zomerdeining.

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Singable for both Felix Mendelssohn's and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's settings.

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