by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912)
Mein Lieb, was hab' ich dir gethan, daß...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Mein Lieb, was hab' ich dir gethan, daß du willst so schwer mich strafen? O sieh mich wieder freundlich an, ich kann nicht wachen, nicht schlafen. Es geht ja nicht um Recht und Recht, wo sich zwei Herzen lieben: Wer also liebt, versteht es schlecht, wär' besser davon geblieben!
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Confirmed with Felix Dahn's Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts, Band XVI, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1898, page 72.
Authorship:
- by Felix Ludwig Julius Dahn (1834 - 1912), no title, appears in Schlichte Weisen, no. 24 [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 Martin Grabert , "Madrigal", op. 6, published 1894 [ ssatbb chorus ], Berlin: Sulzbach [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Madrigal", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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