She has hurt me by retreating into the shadows

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by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870)

Translation © by Jeffrey Tang

Me ha herido recatándose en las sombras

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG

Me ha herido recatándose en las sombras, 
sellando con un beso su traición.
Los brazos me echó al cuello y por la espalda
partiome a sangre fría el corazón.

Y ella prosigue alegre su camino,
feliz, risueña, impávida. ¿Y por qué? 
Porque no brota sangre de la herida, 
porque el muerto está en pie.

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Text Authorship:

by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870), no title, written 1868?, appears in Rimas, no. 46 [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 Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909), "XLVI - Me ha herido recatándose en las sombras", op. 7 no. 3 (1886) [ voice and piano ], from Rimas de Bécquer, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karol Beffa (b. 1973), "Me ha herido", 2011, published 2014, first performed 2011 [ medium voice, viola, and piano ], from Mes Heures de fièvre, poème de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer pour voix (moyenne ou aiguë) alto et piano, no. 1, Éd. G. Billaudot [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Jeffrey Tang) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jean-Pierre Granger

This text was added to the website: 2009-07-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 54

She has hurt me by retreating into the...

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

She has hurt me by retreating into the shadows,
sealing her betrayal with a kiss.
She threw her arms around my neck and down my back,
and broke my heart in cold blood.

And she joyfully goes on her way,
happy, laughing, unhindered. And why?
because there is no blood flowing from the wound,
because the dead man is on his feet.

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Translation of title "XLVI - Me ha herido recatándose en las sombras" = "XLVI - She has hurt me by retreating into the shadows"

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a text in Spanish (Español) by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836 - 1870), no title, written 1868?, appears in Rimas, no. 46
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This text was added to the website: 2023-03-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 62