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by Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze (1789 - 1817)
Translation © by Emily Ezust

O Herz, sey endlich stille!
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE
O Herz, sey endlich stille!
Was schlägst du so unruhvoll?
Es ist ja des Himmels Wille,
Daß ich sie lassen soll!

Und gab auch dein junges Leben
Dir nichts als Wahn und Pein;
Hat's ihr nur Freude gegeben,
So mag's verloren seyn!

Und wenn sie auch nie dein Lieben
Und nie dein Leiden verstand,
So bist du doch treu geblieben,
Und Gott hat's droben erkannt.

Wir wollen es muthig ertragen,
So lang nur die Thräne noch rinnt,
Und träumen von schöneren Tagen,
Die lange vorüber sind.

Und siehst du die Blüthen erscheinen,
Und singen die Vögel umher,
So magst du wohl heimlich weinen,
Doch klagen sollst du nicht mehr.

Gehn doch die ewigen Sterne
Dort oben mit goldenem Licht
Und lächeln so freundlich von ferne,
Und denken doch unser nicht.

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Confirmed with Ernst Schulze's sämmtliche poetische Schriften. Dritter Band. I. Poetisches Tagebuch. [...] Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. 1819, pages 121-122; and with Sämmtliche poetische Werke von Ernst Schulze. Neue Ausgabe mit sechszehn Kupfern. Dritter Theil. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. 1822, pages 123-124.


Text Authorship:

  • by Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze (1789 - 1817), "Am 23sten Januar 1816", written 1816, appears in Poetisches Tagebuch, vom 29ten Junius 1813 bis 17ten Februar 1817, first published 1819 [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 Carl Moltke (1783 - 1831), "Der Liebe Trost", published <<1894 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Weihe der Liebe. Sechs Lieder von E. Schulz für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte oder Guitarre, no. 4, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "An mein Herz", D 860 (1825), published 1832, first performed 1833 [ voice, piano ], A. Diabelli & Co., VN 4013, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Tot mijn hart", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "To my heart", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À mon cœur", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 130

To my heart
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
 O my heart! be still already!
 Why are you pounding so savagely?
 It is the will of heaven
 that I should leave her.
 
 And if your young life gave you
 nothing but delusion and pain,
 it still gave her joy,
 so let it be lost! 
 
 And even if she never understood your love
 or your sorrow,
 you still remained faithful
 and God has recognized this.
 
 We mean to endure it courageously,
 so long as our tears can still flow;
 and we dream of better days
 that have long since passed.
 
 And if you see the flowers appearing
 and hear the birds singing about you,
 you may weep quietly,
 but there must be no more lamenting. 
 
 For the eternal stars still move
 up there with golden light
 and smile so kindly from afar;
 and yet they do not think about us at all.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust

    Emily Ezust permits her translations to be reproduced without prior permission for printed (not online) programs to free-admission concerts only, provided the following credit is given:

    Translation copyright © by Emily Ezust,
    from the LiederNet Archive

    For any other purpose, please write to the e-mail address below to request permission and discuss possible fees.
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Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Ernst Konrad Friedrich Schulze (1789 - 1817), "Am 23sten Januar 1816", written 1816, appears in Poetisches Tagebuch, vom 29ten Junius 1813 bis 17ten Februar 1817, first published 1819
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 143

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