Sloky (Shelley 2) | Tvých polibků se děsím, luzné dítě

Translation by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853 - 1912)

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden

Language: English

I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden;
  Thou needest not fear mine;
My spirit is too deeply laden
  Ever to burden thine.
                           
I fear thy mien, thy tones, thy motion;
  Thou needest not fear mine;
Innocent is the heart's devotion
  With which I worship thine.

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Authorship:

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, first published 1882 [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 Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "To a maiden", published 1954, from Shelley Songs, Cycle of Ten Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by (Archie Thomas) Lee Ashton (b. 1873), "The heart's devotion", published 1908, from Four Old English Love Lyrics, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "I fear thy kisses", 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by John Joseph Becker (1886 - 1961), "I fear thy kisses", 193- [ voice and string quartet or piano ], from Three Songs for Soprano, Piano and String Quartet, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by George John Bennett (1863 - 1930), "I fear thy kisses", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Twelve Songs Set to Poems of Shelley and Rossetti, no. 1, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Lionel Solomon Benson , "I fear thy kisses", published 1879 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Fairfax Birch (b. 1917), "I fear thy kisses", op. 34 no. 2, published 1955 [ baritone or bass, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Blake , "I fear thy kisses", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Ten Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley for voice and piano [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Braun (1868 - ?), "I fear thy kisses", published 1900, from Six Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by A. (Alfred or Arthur?) Herbert Brewer (1865 - 1928), "I fear thy kisses", published 1912 [sung text not yet checked]
by George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916), "I fear thy kisses", 1909, published 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (1876 - 1906), "I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden", 1897 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Still (1910 - 1971), "I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in French (Français), a translation by Gustave Chouquet (1819 - 1886) ; composed by Jules Massenet.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by George John Bennett.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , no title ; composed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Aleksandr Abramovich Kreyn, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky, Vasily Vasilyevich Vargin.
Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Ivan Matveyevich Steshenko (1873 - 1918) ; composed by Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshynsky.

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

CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky (Shelley 2)", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901

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Line count: 8
Word count: 44

Sloky (Shelley 2)

Language: Czech (Čeština) after the English

Tvých polibků se děsím, luzné dítě,
    ty nemusíš se mojich bát’;
můj duch kles’ příliš v těžkých trudů sítě,
    než tíží snad by na tě pad’.

Tvé tváře bojím se a hlasu, hnutí;
    ty nemusíš se mojich bát’,
jeť nevinné to srdce zaplanutí,
    jímž koře se ti tvé mám rád.

Confirmed with SHELLEY, P. B. Výbor lyriky, translated by Jaroslav Vrchlický, Praha: J. Otto, 1901, page 74.

Authorship:

by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853 - 1912), "Sloky (Shelley 2)", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1901 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822), no title, first published 1882

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 text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-07-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 50