Aan een kus | Teder kind van liefde, jij zoete zaligheid

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Corien Sleeswijk

To a Kiss

Language: English

Our translations: DUT

Soft child of love, thou balmy bliss,
Inform me, O delicious kiss: 
Why thou so suddenly art gone,
Lost in the moment thou art won?
Yet go! For wherefore should I sigh?
On Delia's lip with raptured eye,
On Delia's blushing lip I see a thousand
full as sweet as thee,
A thousand full as sweet as thee!

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 William Beale (1784 - 1854), "To a Kiss" [ chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Corien Sleeswijk) , "Aan een kus", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Corien Sleeswijk

This text was added to the website: 2026-03-22
Line count: 9
Word count: 58

Aan een kus

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the English

Teder kind van liefde, jij zoete zaligheid,
Vertel mij, O heerlijke kus:
Waarom je zo plotseling bent verdwenen,
gewonnen en verloren in een oogwenk?
Maar ga! Want waarom zou ik klagen?
Met verrukte blik zie ik er op Delia's lippen,
Op Delia's blozende lippen
duizend, even zoet als jij,
Duizend, even zoet als jij!

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This text was added to the website: 2026-03-22
Line count: 9
Word count: 54