Ó, duše drahá, jedinká, Jež v srdci žiješ dosuď: Má oblétá Tě vzpomínka, Ač dělí nás zlý osud. Ó kéž jsem zpěvnou labutí, Já zaletěl bych k Tobě: A v posledním bych vzdechnutí Ti vypěl srdce v mdlobě.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 58. Note: in stanza 1, line 4, words 1-3, the Bärenreiter edition of Dvořák's setting (2013) follows the original ("Ač dělí nás") but the website antonin-dvorak.cz shows "Ač nás dělí". In addition, both use the spelling "dosud" instead of "dosuď" (stanza 1, line 2, word 5).
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. 4 [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), "Ó, duše drahá, jedinká", B. 11 no. 4 (1865) [ voice and piano ], from Cypřiše, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "Ó, duše drahá, jedinká", op. 83 no. 8, from Písně milostné, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Djordje Nesic) (Hannah Sharene Penn) , "Oh, you, my soul's only dear one", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "O dear soul, the only one true", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Patrick John Corness
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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