by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
He came and sat by my side
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
Our translations: GER
He came and sat by my side but I woke not. What a cursed sleep it was, O miserable me! He came when the night was still; he had his harp in his hands, and my dreams became resonant with its melodies. Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
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Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 26, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 26 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Giannis Konstantinidis (1903 - 1984), "The dream", 1924-80, from Songs of Expectation, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Landon Ronald, Sir (1873 - 1938), "He came and sat by my side", 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Four Song Offerings - 1st series, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margaret Lucy Wilkins (b. 1939), "Dreams, resonant with melodies", op. 35 no. 4 (1981) [ SATB quartet and SATB chorus a cappella ], from Six Song Offerings, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Hans Schouwman.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by André Gide (1869 - 1951) , no title, appears in Gitanjali (L'Offrande lyrique), no. 26, first published 1914 ; composed by Gary Bachlund, Jean-Émile-Paul Cras.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Ján Móry.
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Franco Alfano.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Yevgeny Ottovich Gunst.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2004-01-17
Line count: 10
Word count: 63