Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen | Heart, my heart, yield not to sadness

Translation by Ernest Radford (1857 - 1919)

Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): CAT ENG FRE ITA

  Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen,
Und ertrage dein Geschick.
Neuer Frühling giebt zurück,
Was der Winter dir genommen.

  Und wie viel ist dir geblieben!
Und wie schön ist noch die Welt!
Und mein Herz, was dir gefällt,
Alles, alles darfst du lieben!

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Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 136.

Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 46 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Gebhardt von Alvensleben , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder von Goethe, Chamisso und Heine) no. 3, published 1842? [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ferdinand Gottfried Baake (1800 - 1881), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 13 (Junge Leiden : 13 Gedichte von Heinrich Heine) no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
by Waldemar Edler von Baußnern (1866 - 1931), "Stimme", op. 1 (Einhundert Lieder und Gesänge) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by L. Bibl , "Mein Herz ist beklommen", from Zwei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Bohm (1844 - 1920), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 326 (Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme -- für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 17, published 1886-7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Oskar Böhme (b. 1870), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 9 (Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm Brauer , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 4 (Drei Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by G[eorg] von Bredow (flourished 19^th century), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published c1860 [sung text not yet checked]
by P. Brönner , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 12 (Drei Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolph Bruné , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 11 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Werschetz, Wettel [sung text not yet checked]
by Wilhelm Claussen (1843 - 1869), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 3 (Fünf Lieder von H. Heine, für Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1874 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
by Karen De Pastel (b. 1949), "Herz, mein Herz", 1974, from Sieben Lieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton Antonovich Derfeldt (1810 - 1869), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Dessau (1894 - 1979), "Herz, mein Herz", 1978 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Nicola Dmitrieff , "Hoffnungslied", from Herbstblätter: Sechs Lieder von Heine, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by J. Dürck , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", from Sechs Lieder und Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ludwig Ebert (1834 - 1908), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 13 (Lieder von H. Heine) no. 1 [ high voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduard Ebert-Buchheim , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", from Drei Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Frühlingzyklus, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduard Franck (1817 - 1893), "H. Heine: Aus der Heimkehr", op. 4 (Sechs zweistimmige Lieder) no. 6 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Johan Hendrik Garms , "Herz, mein Herz" [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], note: also set in French and Dutch [sung text not yet checked]
by Marques L. A. Garrett (b. 1984), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", 2013 [ voice and piano ], from A Love Cycle: Songs of Happiness, Heartbreak, Hope, and Healing, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard von Gericke , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 2 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, published 1860 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Hamburg, Meyer und Brünner [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerald M. Ginsburg (b. 1933), "Widmung", 2002, published c2003, from Aus Schmerzen zu Lieder, no. 19 [sung text not yet checked]
by O. K. F. Gorzer-Schultz , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 28 (Vierzehn Lieder) no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann (1820 - 1900), "Trost", op. 6 no. 4, published 1855 [ voice and piano ], from Fliegende Blätter: Sieben Lieder, no. 4, Berlin, Challier und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
by Christian Friedrich Grimmer (1798 - 1850), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder von H. Heine) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolf Gritzner , "Reichtum des Frühlings", in Lieder und Gesänge, Heft 4, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Grotthuss , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", from Fünf Lieder, no. 3, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Friedrich Wilhelm Grund (1791 - 1874), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen" [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], from Sechs Duette, no. 6, Hamburg, Böhme [sung text not yet checked]
by Julie Harting , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published c1989 [ baritone and piano ], from Three German songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Hellmesberger, jun. (1855 - 1907), "Mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 3, Wien, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
by Georg Andreas Henkel (1805 - 1871), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Hermann (1869 - 1912), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 5 (Sechs kleine Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1895 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, Junne [sung text not yet checked]
by H. Hill , "Herz, mein Herz" [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Hirsch , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 25 (Drei Duette für Sopran und Alt (oder 2ten Sopran) mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1842 [ vocal duet for alto and soprano with piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Hohfeld (flourished 1884-1895), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge, no. 11, Mainz: Kittlitz-Schott [sung text not yet checked]
by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 6 (Zwölf Lieder), Heft 1 no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ludvig Irgens-Jensen (1894 - 1969), "Herz, mein Herz", op. 3 (Gedichte von Heine) no. 2, published 19-? [sung text not yet checked]
by Theodor Kewitsch (1834 - 1903), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 17 (Drei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Neuer Frühling", op. 27 (Vier Lieder) no. 1, published 1834 [ voice, piano, and violoncello or horn ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "Herz, mein Herz", op. 86 no. 1, published c1986 [ voice and piano ], English title (composer's translation) : "Heart, dear heart" [sung text not yet checked]
by Demetrios Lialios (1869 - 1940), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 6 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Neuer Frühling", op. 9, Heft 7 (Sechs Gedichte von Heinrich Heine und August von Platen) no. 4 (1832), published 1832 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst Löwenberg , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder von Heine für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
by George Alexander MacFarren (1813 - 1887), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 51 (Drei Lieder aus H. Heines Reisebildern) no. 2, published 1845 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ida van Malden , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Adolf Eduard Marschner (1819 - 1853), "Herz, mein Herz", published 1861, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
by Hendrik Arnoldus Meyroos (1830 - 1900), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 36 (Vier Gedichte) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Julius Michaelis , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", from Vier Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Stuart Moffat (b. 1953), "Herz, mein Herz", 1971 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gregor Molitor (1867 - 1926), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Elf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 10, München, Lederer [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst Otto Nodnagel (1870 - 1909), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 17 (Perdita : sechs lyrische Szenen) no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Elimar, Herzog von Oldenburg , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", from Kompositionen, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Avgustovich Pfennig (1823 - 1898), "Duett" [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Gesangskompositionen, Heft II, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Albert Quinche (1867 - 1944), "Herz, mein Herz", published 1894? [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Niels Otto Raasted (1888 - 1966), "Herz, mein Herz", op. 37 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 6, published 1923 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter (1808 - 1879), "Neuer Frühling", op. 14 no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Ries (1846 - 1932), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, published 1870 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
by Charlotte Sporleder (1836 - 1915), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 15 (Vier Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Herz, mein Herz", 1871, note: according to Peter Shea's index, the poem is attributed to Geibel in thematic catalogs [sung text not yet checked]
by Josef Sucher (1843 - 1908), "Neuer Frühling" [sung text not yet checked]
by C. J. J. Verbroek , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen" [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803 - 1883), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published 1851, from Die Heimkehr : 88 Gedichte aus H. Heine's Reisebildern, no. 46 [sung text not yet checked]
by Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky (1788 - 1856), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", published 1852 [ duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], from Sechs Lieder von Heine, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Willy Viol (b. 1848), "Neuer Frühling", op. 6 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Sulzbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Wilhelm Wolf-Gardasser (1879 - 1934), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", op. 1 (Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Theodorus Leonardus van der Wurff (1836 - 1900), "Lied", 1868 [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Würz (1885 - 1965), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen" [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation (Miss S. W. L. ) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Adolf Eduard Marschner.
Also set in English, a translation by Ernest Radford (1857 - 1919) , "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 108, first published 1887 ; composed by Teresa del Riego.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Robert Caby.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov (1821 - 1897) , written 1857 ; composed by Aleksandr Ivanovich Dyubyuk, Nikolay Feopemptovich Solovyov.

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Heart, my heart, don't be oppressed", copyright ©
ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Cuore, cuore mio, non essere angosciato", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
POL Polish (Polski) (Aleksander Kraushar) , "Niech me serce", Warsaw, first published 1880

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

Heart, my heart, yield not to sadness

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Heart, my heart, yield not to sadness;
Be submissive to thy fate;
And spring restoreth -- only wait -- 
All that winter steals from gladness.

Think but how much there still is left thee,
Think but how fair the world is still;
Heart, my heart, befall what will,
Love can never be bereft thee.

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Authorship:

by Ernest Radford (1857 - 1919), "Herz, mein Herz, sei nicht beklommen", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 108, first published 1887 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 46

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Teresa del Riego (c1876 - 1968), "Heart, my heart", published 1900, from Two Songs, no. 2. [
text not verified
]

Researcher for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-01-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 52