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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.
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 text: 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
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.
Authorship
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- 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
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 143