by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Translation by Adolf Böttger (1815 - 1870)

Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
Language: English 
Our translations:  CAT CHI ITA
Sun of the sleepless! melancholy star!
Whose tearful beam glows tremulously far!
That show'st the darkness thou canst not dispel,
How like art thou to joy remember'd well!
So gleams the past, the light of other days,
Which shines, but warms not with its powerless rays;
A nightbeam Sorrow watcheth to behold,
Distinct, but distant - clear - but, oh how cold!

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  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Soleil des hommes qui ne peuvent dormir", appears in Mélodies hébraïques, no. 24
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sole degli insonni", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English 
Schlafloser Augen Sonne! trüber Stern,
Dein thränenvoller Strahl erzittert fern, --

Du offenbarst die Nacht, die dir nicht weicht:
O wie dir ganz des Glücks Erinnrung gleicht!

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Composition:

    Set to music by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Sonne des Schlaflosen", NWV. 30 (1865), stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], fragment

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This text was added to the website: 2009-08-08
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Word count: 54