So many hearts are all lifeless | So many hearts are all lifeless

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by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875)

Translation © by Patrick John Corness

V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest

Language: Czech (Čeština)

Our translations: ENG ENG FIN

V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest
Jak v temné pustině;
V něm na žalosť a na bolesť,
Ba místa jedině.

Tu klami lásky horoucí
V to srdce vstupuje,
A srdce žalem prahnoucí,
To mní, že miluje.

A v tomto sladkém domnění
Se ještě jednou v ráj
To srdce mrtvé promění
A zpívá starou báj!

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Confirmed with Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických od Gustava Pflegera (Moravského), V Praze (Prague) : Nákladem knihkupectvi: I. L. Kober, 1862, page 57. Note: the Bärenreiter edition of Dvořák's setting (2013) uses the spelling "žalost" and "bolest" (stanza 1, line 3). The website antonin-dvorak.cz uses the spelling "klamy" (stanza 2, line 1).

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. 3 [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), "V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest", B. 11 no. 3 (1865) [ voice and piano ], from Cypřiše, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904), "V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest", op. 83 no. 2, from Písně milostné, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Djordje Nesic) (Hannah Sharene Penn) , "In many a heart death dwells", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , "So many hearts are all lifeless", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Monessakin sydämessä asuu kuolema", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 12
Word count: 54

So many hearts are all lifeless

Language: English after the Czech (Čeština)

So many hearts are all lifeless,
arid as a desert,
therein for pain and for sadness
alone there is room left.

Even dreams of loving passion
grow in this heart that grieves,
and the heart, yearning in its pain,
believes it truly loves.

And in this sweet delusion
the heart that became dead
enters paradise once again
and sings a lay of old!

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a text in Czech (Čeština) by Gustav Pfleger-Moravský (1833 - 1875), no title, appears in Cypřiše. Sbírka básní lyrických a epických, in 1. Dozvuky lyrické, in 2. Písně, no. 3
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-17
Line count: 12
Word count: 63