Have you not favored with love

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by Gottfried August Bürger (1747 - 1794)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Seufzer eines Ungeliebten

(Sung text for setting by C. Agthe)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: DUT ENG FRE

Hast du nicht Liebe zugemessen
Dem Leben jeder Kreatur?
Warum bin ich allein vergessen,
Auch meine Mutter du! du Natur?

Wo lebte wohl in Forst und Hürde,
Und wo in Luft und Meer, ein Tier,
Das nimmermehr geliebet würde? --
Geliebt wird alles außer mir!

Wenn gleich in Hain und Wiesenmatten
Sich Baum und Staude, Moos und Kraut
Durch Lieb' und Gegenliebe gatten;
Vermählt sich mir doch keine Braut.

Mir wächst vom süßesten der Triebe
Nie Honigfrucht zur Lust heran.
Denn ach! mir mangelt Gegenliebe,
Die Eine nur gewähren kann.

Composition:

Carl Christian Agthe

Text Authorship:

by Gottfried August Bürger (1747 - 1794), "Seufzer eines Ungeliebten", appears in Lyrische Gedichte, first published 1789

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Zuchten van een onbeminde", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Soupir d'un mal aimé", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 91

Have you not favored with love

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Agthe)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Have you not favored with love 
every creature's life?
Why, however, am I forgotten
as well as you, my mother, you, Nature?

Where in bosk and lea 
and where in air and sea may dwell a beast,
that nevermore was loved?
All is loved, but me, truly all but me!

Be it in groves, in fields and pastures
that tree and bush and moss and herb
find each other in love --
why will I not get married to a bride?

The sweetest of all desires 
never sprouts a fruit for me.
Alas, love is never returned to me,
love, that only one can give.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Gottfried August Bürger (1747 - 1794), "Seufzer eines Ungeliebten", appears in Lyrische Gedichte, first published 1789
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