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Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden, Die durch meinen Busen ziehn? Alle alten Wünsche scheiden, Tausend neue Blumen blühn. Durch die Dämmerung der Tränen Seh' ich [ferne]1 Sonnen stehn, - Welches Schmachten! welches Sehnen! Wag' ich's? soll ich näher gehn? Ach, und fällt die Träne nieder, Ist es dunkel um mich her; Dennoch kömmt kein Wunsch mir wieder, [Zukunft]2 ist von Hoffnung leer. So schlage denn, [strebendes]3 Herz, So fließet denn, Tränen, [herab]4, Ach, Lust ist nur tieferer Schmerz, Leben ist [dunkeles]5 Grab, - Ohne Verschulden Soll [ich]6 erdulden? Wie ist's, daß mir im Traum Alle Gedanken Auf und nieder schwanken! Ich kenne mich noch kaum. O, hört mich, ihr gütigen Sterne, O höre mich, [grünende Flur]7, [Du, Liebe, den heiligen]8 Schwur: Bleib' ich ihr ferne, Sterb' ich gerne. Ach, nur [im Licht von]9 ihrem Blick Wohnt Leben und Hoffnung und Glück!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Weber: "neue" (new)
2 Weber: "Erde" (the earth)
3 Weber: "sterbendes" (dying)
4 Weber: "hinab" (out)
5 Brahms: "dunkles"
6 Weber: "ich's" (I)
7 Weber: "weite Nature" (wide Nature)
8 Weber: "Hört den ernsten" (Hear the serious)
9 omitted by Weber.
Textual variants provided by Peter W. Shea
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 4, chapter heading: "Peter sieht die schöne Magelone" [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden", op. 33 no. 3 (1861-65), published 1865 [ voice and piano ], from Die schöne Magelone. Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, no. 3, Winterthur, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch (1806 - 1872), "Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden", published 1838 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von L. Tieck, 2tes Heft, no. 3, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Maria (Friedrich Ernst) von Weber (1786 - 1826), "Sind es Schmerzen, sind es Freuden", op. 30 (Sechs deutsche Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 6 (1813), published [1813] [ voice and piano ], Mannheim, bey Jos. Abelshauser [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Són dolors o són alegries", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Are they sorrows or are they joys", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sono dolori, sono gioie", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Ar tai skausmas, ar tai džiaugsmas", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- TUR Turkish (Türkçe) (Gül Sabar) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 29
Word count: 151
Are they sorrows or are they joys Which tug at my breast? All the old desires leave; A thousand new flowers bloom. Through the dusk of tears I see suns standing in the distance, - What languishing, what longing! Do I dare? Shall I move closer? Ah, and when my tears are falling, It is dark around me; Yet if my desires do not return, The future is empty of hope. So beat then, my ambitious heart, So flow down then, my tears, Ah, joy is only a deeper pain, Life is a dark grave, - Without guilt, Should I then suffer? How is it that in my dreams All my thoughts Tremble up and down? I scarcely know myself any more. O, hear me, kindly stars, O hear me, green meadow, And you, my love, hear my holy oath: If I remain far from her, I will die gladly. Ah, only in the light of her gaze Dwell life and hope and happiness!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 4, chapter heading: "Peter sieht die schöne Magelone"
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 29
Word count: 162