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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Translation © by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Bread ‑ Sorrow
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
Dread sorrow, who never ate his bread in sorrow
 . . . . . . . . . .

— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —

This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3rd ed., 1979, Angela Partington, ed., Oxford University Press Inc, NY.


Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, copyright ©

Based on:

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

  • by Ralph Shapey (1921 - 2002), "Bread - Sorrow", 1995, published 1999 [soprano and piano], from Goethe Songs II, no. 3, Bryn Mawr, Pa: T. Presser

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