by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Translation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

The cloud doth gather, the greenwood...
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar,
The damsel paces along the shore;
The billows they tumble with might, with might;
And she flings out her voice to the darksome night;
Her bosom is swelling with sorrow;
The world it is empty, the heart will die,
There's nothing to wish for beneath the sky:
Thou Holy One, call Thy child away!
I've lived and loved, and that was to-day --
Make ready my grave-clothes to-morrow.

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  • Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779 - 1850) [an adaptation] ; composed by Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse.
  • Also set in English, a translation by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937) ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Robert de Bonnières (1850 - 1905) , "Schiller : La plainte de la jeune fille" ; composed by Vincent d'Indy.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852) , "Тоска по милом", written 1807 [an adaptation] ; composed by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pleshcheyev, Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky, Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya.

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