Solitude | I await her every day. Will she come back?

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by Leopold Staff (1878 - 1957)

Translation © by Marek Tomaszewski

Czekam jej, jak co dzień. Czy wróci?

Language: Polish (Polski) after the Arabic (العربية)

Our translations: ENG

Czekam jej, jak co dzień. Czy wróci?
Myślę o wieczorze rozstania, o trzasku drzwi, które zawarła
w gniewie, o milczeniu, które zaległo w mej duszy.
Czekam jej, jak co dzień. Czy wróci?
Weszłaby, mówiąc, by coś rzec:
"Mijałam twój dom i przychodzę spojrzeć, czy róże nie ucierpiały od zimy."
Potem uśmiechnęłaby się do mego ogródka,
do spokojnego widnokręgu i wiem, że nie odeszłaby już.

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Text Authorship:

by Leopold Staff (1878 - 1957), "Ogród pieszczot", first published 1921 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Grażyna Bacewicz-Biernacka (1909 - 1969), "Samotność", 1938, from Trzy pies'ni do s/low arabskich z X wieku, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English ( Marek Tomaszewski) , "Solitude", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 64

Solitude

Language: English after the Polish (Polski)

I await her every day. Will she come back?
I think about our parting evening: the bang of the door that she shut
in anger; the silence that then settled in my soul.
I await her every day. Will she come back?
She would come in, saying, merely to say something:
"I was passing by your house and I came to see whether the roses have suffered because of the winter."
Then she would smile at my garden
and at the calm horizon - and I know that she would never leave again.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Polish (Polski) to English copyright © 2004 by Marek Tomaszewski, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in Polish (Polski) by Leopold Staff (1878 - 1957), "Ogród pieszczot", first published 1921
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2004-08-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 92