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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Sie liebten sich beide

(Sung text for setting by A. Backer-Grøndahl)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CAT DUT ENG FRE FRE ITA

  Sie liebten sich beide, doch keiner
Wollt' es dem andern gestehn;
Sie sahen sich an so feindlich,
Und wollten vor Liebe vergehn.

  Sie trennten sich endlich und sahen sich
Nur noch zuweilen im Traum;
Sie waren schon längst gestorben
Und wußten es selber kaum.

Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 131.

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Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl

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Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 33

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Verliefd waren beiden", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Kenneth Smith) , "They once loved each other", copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Ils s'aimaient tous les deux", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Tous deux s'aimaient, pourtant aucun", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Si amavano entrambi", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Tous deux s'aimaient, pourtant aucun

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Backer-Grøndahl)

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Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Tous deux s'aimaient, pourtant aucun
Ne voulait l'avouer à l'autre ;
Ils se regardaient avec hostilité,
Et voulaient mourir d'amour.

Finalement ils se séparèrent et se voyaient
Juste de temps en temps en rêve ;
Ils étaient morts depuis longtemps
Et c'est à peine s'ils le savaient eux-mêmes.

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