Confirmed with Joseph Viktor Scheffel, Frau Aventiure. Lieder aus Heinrich von Ofterdingen's Zeit, Stuttgart: Verlag der J. B. Metzler'schen Buchhandlung, 1873, Pages 135-136.

Note: The poem bears the following epigraph from Vol. I, page 96 of the Lieder-Saal ("Hall of Songs"), a collection of Middle High German poetry published beginning in 1820:

.. und sag ir uz getrüwem mut
früntschaft, lieb und alles gut,
von wunsch ir dazu liebes mê
denn trophen hab der Bodemsê.

...and speak to her with faithful heart 
of friendship, love, and all good things,
that you wish her in addition more love
than there are drops in the Bodensee.

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel (1826 - 1886), "Tristicia amorosa", appears in Frau Aventiure. Lieder aus Heinrich von Ofterdingens Zeit, in Einer aus Schwabenland [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Oswald Körte , "Tristicia amorosa", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Frau Aventiure. Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung. 2. Folge, no. 5, Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "A Lover's Sadness", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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