by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849)
Translation by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)
Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Hungarian (Magyar)
Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe, ein gar zu gefährlicher Bronnen; da fiel ich hinein, ich Armer, kann weder hören noch sehn, nur denken an meine Wonnen, nur stöhnen in meinen Wehn.
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Confirmed with Georg Friedrich Daumer, Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, zweiter Band, Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstalt, 1855, page 122. Appears in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 15.
Text Authorship:
- by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 15 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), "A szerelem, a szerelem", written 1843
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe", op. 52 no. 16 (1869), from Liebesliederwalzer, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pauline Kroger) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Love is a dark shaft", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Milla Valkeasuo) , "Rakkaus on synkkä rotko", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "L'amour est un sombre puits", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull
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