That your gaze might incline to me

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by Michael P Rosewall

Deinem Blick mich zu bequemen

(Sung text for setting by A. Schoenberg)

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Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

Deinem Blick mich zu bequemen,
Deinem Munde, deiner Brust,
Deine Stimme zu vernehmen
War die letzt' und erste Lust.

Gestern, ach, war sie die letzte,
Dann verlosch mir Leucht und Feuer,
Jeder Scherz der mich ergetzte,
Wird nun schuldenschwer und teuer.

Eh' es Allah nicht gefällt,
Uns  ...  zu vereinen,
Gibt mir Sonne, Mond und Welt
Nur Gelegenheit zum Weinen.

Composition:

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg

7 frühe Lieder

Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1815, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 8. Buch Suleika -- Suleika Nameh

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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That your gaze might incline to me

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Schoenberg)

See original

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

That your gaze might incline to me,
That your mouth, your breast
and your voice I might sense.
Was my last, and my first desire.

Yesterday, alas, was her last;
then were my light and fire extinguished.
Every pleasantness that once delighted
Is now grievous and oppressive.

If it does not please Allah
to unite us,
The sun, moon and earth only give me
occasion to weep.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1815, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 8. Buch Suleika -- Suleika Nameh
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