by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
Long, long is the night
Language: Scottish (Scots)
Our translations: FRE
Long, long is the night, And heavy comes the morrow, While my soul's delight Is on her bed of sorrow. Can, can I cease, Can I cease to languish, While my soul's delight Is on her couch of anguish? Can I cease to mourn, Can I cease to languish, While my darling fair Is on her couch of anguish? Hear me, Pow'rs Divine! Oh in pity hear me! Take aught else of mine, But my Chloris spare me!
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) [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 Sterndale Bennett (1816 - 1875), "To Chloe in Sickness", alternate title: "To Chloë being ill", op. 23 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1842 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858) ; composed by William Sterndale Bennett.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-12-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 78