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Du warst ja meine einz'ge Blume; Verwelkt bist du -- kahl ist mein Leben! Du warst für mich die strahlende Sonne, Du schiedst -- ich bin von Nacht umgeben! Warst meiner [Phantasie die]1 Schwinge, Du brachst -- ich kann nun nimmer fliegen! Du warst die Wärme meines Blutes; Du flohst -- ich muß dem Frost erliegen!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Dichtungen von Alexander Petöfi. Aus dem Ungarischen, in eigenen und fremden Übersetzungen herausgegeben von Karl Maria Kertbeny, Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1858, page 152.
1 Nietzsche: "Seele leichteste"Authorship
- by Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824 - 1882), no title, appears in Dichtungen von Alexander Petőfi, in Cypressenblätter vom Grabe Etelka's, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), no title
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "Verwelkt", NWV 24 (1864) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John H. Campbell) , "Wilted", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Fanée", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: John Versmoren
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 52
You were my only flower, you are withered, my life is empty. You were the shining sun for me, you have left, I am surrounded by night. My soul swayed freely, you are sundered, now I will never fly. You warmed my very blood, you have gone, I must succumb to the frost.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824 - 1882), no title, appears in Dichtungen von Alexander Petőfi, in Cypressenblätter vom Grabe Etelka's, no. 5
- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), no title
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 54