Love Song | Pleasures of love require a tender soul

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Zongshu Wu

Romance

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Plaisir d'aimer, besoin d'une âme tendre
Que vous avez de pouvoir sur mon coeur.
De vous, hélas, en voulant me défendre
Je perds la paix sans trouver le bonheur.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Romance", WoO. 128 (1799) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Zongshu Wu) , "Love Song", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Mario Hacquard

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-17
Line count: 4
Word count: 29

Love Song

Language: English after the French (Français)

Pleasures of love require a tender soul;
You have such power over my heart!
Alas, by trying to protect myself from you,
I lost my peace without finding happiness.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2024-08-19
Line count: 4
Word count: 29