Verily! Bow and arrow (Tieck, set by Johannes Brahms) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Traun! Bogen und Pfeil

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): DUT ENG FRE ITA TUR

Traun! Bogen und Pfeil
Sind gut für den Feind,
Hülflos alleweil
Der Elende weint;
Dem Edlen blüht Heil,
Wo Sonne nur scheint,
Die Felsen sind steil,
Doch Glück ist sein Freund.

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Authorship

by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853), no title, appears in Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence, no. 3, chapter heading: "Wie der Ritter Peter von seinen Eltern zog" [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), "Traun! Bogen und Pfeil", op. 33 no. 2 (1861-65), published 1865 [voice and piano], from Die schöne Magelone. Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, no. 2, Winterthur, Rieter-Biedermann [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Verily! Bow and arrow", copyright ©
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Invero! Arco e freccia", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Van handboog en pijl", copyright © 2015, (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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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:52
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Word count: 31

Verily! Bow and arrow

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Verily! Bow and arrow
Are useful against the enemy,
Ever helpless,
The weak and wretched man will weep;
Health blooms for the noble man
Wherever the sun may shine:
The cliffs may be steep,
But Luck is his friend.

Authorship

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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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. 3, chapter heading: "Wie der Ritter Peter von seinen Eltern zog"

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:52
Line count: 8
Word count: 39