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by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Ächtes Lieben

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ächtes Lieben
   Ist Betrüben,
   Thut so wohl und doch so weh;
   Aechte Minne
   Zieht die Sinne
   Schmerzend sich nach über Land und See.--
 
Wollt der Schmerzen
   Ihr, o Herzen,
   Gerne los und ledig sein?
   Werft das Lieben,
   Das Betrüben
   Frisch in die kühlige Fluth hinein!--
 
Ach, dies Leiden
   Ist mein Weiden,
   Nimmer, nimmer laß ich's los;
   Fiel' sein Schwellen
   In die Wellen,
   Spräng' ich ihm nach in den Todesschooß.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Friedrich Baron de la Motte Fouqué, Corona. Ein Rittergedicht in drei Büchern, Stuttgart und Tübingen: in der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung, 1814, page 191

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 (Franz) Carl Adalbert Eberwein (1786 - 1868), "Lied aus der Corona von Fouqué" [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-12-11
Line count: 18
Word count: 69

Genuine loving

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Genuine loving
   Means causing grief,
   It gladdens so and yet is so painful;
   Genuine courtly love
   Draws the senses
   Painfully after itself across land and sea.--
 
Would of the pain
   You, oh hearts,
   Gladly be rid of and unfettered?
   Cast loving,
   Grieving
   Briskly into the cooling floodwaters!--
 
Ah, this suffering
   Is my sustenance,
   Never, never shall I let go of it;
   If its swelling
   Fell into the waves,
   I should leap after it into the lap of death.

About the headline (FAQ)

Translation of title "Lied aus der Corona von Fouqué" = "Song from Fouqué’s Corona"

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (1777 - 1843), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-11
Line count: 18
Word count: 78