Ill-fated Heart! and can it be, That thou should'st thus be rent in twain? Have years of care for thine and thee Alike been all employ'd in vain? Yet precious seems each shatter'd part, And every fragment dearer grown, Since he who wears thee feels thou art A fitter emblem of his own.
Confirmed with Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and other Poems, seventh Edition, London: John Murray, 1814, page 237. Appears in Poems.
Text Authorship:
- by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "On a Cornelian Heart which was Broken", written 1812, appears in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and other Poems, in Poems [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), adapted by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864) , "Auf ein zerbrochenes Herz von Carneol" ; composed by Josephine Lang.
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2003-10-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 53
Unglücklich Herz, und konnt' es sein,
Daß deine Form in Stücke ging!
Da sie durch langer Jahre Reihn
Getreulich mir am [Herzen]1 hing?
Doch Werth von dir hat jedes Stück,
Weil du mein eigner Spiegel bist,
Denn jedes Stück zeigt mir ein Glück,
Das einst, ach, war, und nicht mehr ist!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Lord Byron’s sämmtliche Werke. Nach den Anforderungen unserer Zeit neu übersetzt von Mehreren, Zweite unveränderte Ausgabe, Erster Band, Pforzheim: Verlag von Dennig Finck & Co., 1842, page 227.
1 Lang: "Busen"Text Authorship:
- by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864), "Auf ein zerbrochenes Herz von Carneol" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "On a Cornelian Heart which was Broken", written 1812, appears in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: and other Poems, in Poems
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Auf ein zerbrochnes Herz von Carneol", 1839, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "On a Cornelian Heart which was Broken", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2003-10-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 52