O schaudre nicht! Laß diesen Blick, Laß diesen Händedruck dir sagen, Was unaussprechlich ist: Sich hinzugeben ganz und eine Wonne Zu fühlen, die ewig sein muß! Ewig! -- Ihr Ende [würde]1 Verzweiflung sein. Nein! kein Ende. Kein Ende!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Faust in ursprünglicher Gestalt (Urfaust), in: Goethe Faust, kommentiert von Erich Trunz, München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 16., überarbeitete Auflage, 1996, page 403
1 B. von Arnim: "wird"Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie erster Teil (Part I) [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 Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785 - 1859), "Aus Faust", 1842 [ voice and piano ], from Die Lieder der Sammlung, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Gérard Labrunie) , no title
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
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Oh ! ne frémis pas ! Que ce regard, que ce serrement de main te disent ce qui ne peut s’exprimer : s’abandonner l’un à l’autre, pour goûter un ravissement qui peut être éternel ! Éternel !… sa fin serait le désespoir !… Non ! point de fin ! point de fin !
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Text Authorship:
- by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval, no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie erster Teil (Part I)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-12
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