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by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875)

Mé srdce často v neštěstí
Language: Czech (Čeština) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG
Mé srdce často v neštěstí
Se teskně zadumá:
„Ó že ta láska bolestí
A tolik trnů má?

Ta láska přejde jako sen,
Tak krásná, spanilá
A za kratinko upne jen
Se na ní mohyla!

A na mohylu kámen dán,
Nad nímž tam lípa bdí;
A na kameni nápis psán:
Zde srdce puklé spí!...”

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 65. Note: in the first stanza, the website antonin-dvorak.cz shows "bolesti" instead of "neštěstí" on the first line, "trnů" instead of "bolestí" on the third line, and "bolestí tolik" instead of "tolik trnů" on the fourth line; and in the fourth stanza's final line it shows "Zde puklé srdce" instead of "Zde srdce puklé". The Bärenreiter edition of Dvořák's setting (2013) follows the Pfleger-Moravský edition for all of these.


Text Authorship:

  • by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 11 [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 Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Mé srdce často v bolesti", B. 11 no. 11 (1865) [ voice and piano ], from Cypřiše, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Mé srdce často v bolesti", op. 2 (Písně = Songs = Lieder) no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "My heart is often in pain", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "My heart full of sadness often", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Patrick John Corness

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 53

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