Love, my heart longs day and night | Love, my heart longs day and night

by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)

Language: Bangla (Bengali)

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by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by František Balej (1873 - 1918) ; composed by Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
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Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pavel Haas.
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Also set in English, a translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) , no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 50, first published 1913 ; composed by Raymond Hanson, Darius Milhaud, Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman.
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Love, my heart longs day and night

Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)

Our translations: GER

Love, my heart longs day and night 
for the meeting with you -- for the meeting
that is like all devouring death. 

Sweep me away like a storm;
take everything I have; 
break open my sleep and plunder my dreams.
Rob me of my world. 

In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit,
let us become one in beauty.
Alas for my vain desire! 
Where is this hope for union
except in thee, my God?

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Text Authorship:

by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 50, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Raymond Hanson (1913 - 1976), "Love, my heart longs", op. 39 no. 6 (1959/60) [ tenor and piano ], from Seven songs from The Gardener , no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Love, my heart longs day and night", op. 30 no. 1, published 1915 [ soprano and piano ], from Deux poemes d'amour, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874 - 1953), "Love, my heart longs day and night", published 1916, from Love Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Jan Śliwiński) , no title, appears in Rabindranath Tagore. Der Gärtner, no. 50, first published 1916

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

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