¡Todos duermen, corazón,
todos duermen y vos, non!
El dolor que habéis cobrado
siempre os terná desvelado,
que él corazón lastimado
recuérdalo la pasión.

Note: taken from Ten Centuries of Spanish Poetry, edited by Eleanor L. Turnbull, published by Johns Hopkins, copyright © 1955. Turnbull's translation begins "All are sleeping, my sad heart, ..."

Text Authorship:

• by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Todos duermen, corazón", from Cancionero general, first published 1511 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , no title, appears in The Spanish Student, act II scene 4, first published 1843 ; composed by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Noel Johnson, Henry Bickford Pasmore.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Emanuel von Geibel (1815 - 1884) , no title, appears in Spanisches Liederbuch, in 2. Weltliche Lieder, no. 13 ; composed by Heinrich, Freiherr von Bach, as Heinrich Molbe, Joseph Brambach, Arno Kleffel, Adolph Bernhard Marx, Friedrich August Naubert, Anton Rückauf, Heinrich von Sahr, Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johannes Fastenrath (1839 - 1908) , "Alles schlummert, o mein Herz!", appears in Die Wunder Sevilla's: Romanzen und Lieder, in Von den Ufern des Betis, Leipzig: Eduard Heinrich Meyer, first published 1867 ; composed by Julius Sachs.
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All are sleeping, weary heart!
Thou, thou only sleepless art!
All this throbbing, all this aching,
Evermore shall keep thee waking,
For a heart in sorrow breaking
Thinketh ever of its smart!