Love, my heart longs day and night
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
Love, my heart longs day and night
for the meeting with you -- for the meeting
that is like all devouring death.
Sweep me away like a storm;
take everything I have;
break open my sleep and plunder my dreams.
Rob me of my world.
In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit,
let us become one in beauty.
Alas for my vain desire!
Where is this hope for union
except in thee, my God?
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Raymond Hanson (1913 - 1976), "Love, my heart longs", op. 39 no. 6 (1959/60) [ tenor and piano ], from Seven songs from The Gardener , no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Love, my heart longs day and night", op. 30 no. 1, published 1915 [ soprano and piano ], from Deux poemes d'amour, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874 - 1953), "Love, my heart longs day and night", published 1916, from Love Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
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Researcher for this page: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 75
Liebe, mein Herz sehnt Tag und Nacht
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Liebe, mein Herz sehnt Tag und Nacht
eine Begegnung mit dir herbei - eine Begegnung,
die so ist, wie der alles verschlingende Tod.
Feg mich hinweg, gleich einem Sturm,
nimm alles, was ich hab’;
entreiß’ dem Schlaf mich, beraub’ mich meiner Träume,
beraub’ mich meiner Welt.
In dieser völligen Verzweiflung, in äußerster Entblößung meines Innern
lasse im Schönen eins uns werden.
Weh meinem aussichtslosen Sehnen!
Wo, denn in Dir, mein Gott,
kann auf Vereinigung ich hoffen?
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-27
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