by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841)

Sie liebten sich beide, doch keiner
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE FRE ITA



        

        
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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.


1 Backer-Grøndahl, White: "sahen"

2 Backer-Grøndahl: "schon längst"




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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila)  , copyright © 2015, (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 


Research team  for this page: Emily Ezust  [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs  [Guest Editor] 
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8

Word count: 43



        
Они любили друг друга
 (Sung text for setting by A. Arensky)
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Language: Russian (Русский)  after the German (Deutsch) 

        

        
        
        
        
Они любили друг друга так долго и нежно,
С тоскою глубокой и страстью безумно-мятежной!
Но, как враги, избегали признанья и встречи,
И были пусты и хладны их краткие речи.

Они расстались в безмолвном и гордом страданье,
И милый образ во сне лишь порою видали.
И смерть пришла: наступило за гробом свиданье...
Но в мире новом друг друга они не узналли.



        

        


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Composition:
    Set to music  by Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906), "Они любили друг друга", op. 55 [ SATB quartet a cappella ]
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Research team  for this page: Emily Ezust  [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider  [Guest Editor] 
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