Ah, turn away this gaze | Ah, turn away this gaze, turn away your face!

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Ach, wende diesen Blick, wende dies...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG ENG FRE

Ach, wende diesen Blick, wende dies Angesicht!
Das Inn're mir mit ewig neuer Glut,
Mit ewig neuem Harm erfülle nicht!

Wenn einmal die gequälte Seele ruht,
Und mit so fieberischer Wilde nicht
In meinen Adern rollt das heiße Blut -

Ein Strahl, ein flüchtiger, von deinem Licht,
Er wecket auf des Wehs gesamte Wut,
Das [schlangenhaft]¹ mich in das Herze sticht.

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¹ Brahms: "schlangengleich"

Text Authorship:

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Frauenbilder und Huldigungen, in Dritte Periode, no. 5, Volume II, first published 1853 [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 Rudolph Bergh (1859 - 1924), "Dies Angesicht", op. 19 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Ach, wende diesen Blick", op. 57 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge) no. 4 (<<1871), published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Ach, wend die blik toch af", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Ah, turn away this gaze", copyright ©
ENG English (Kyle Gee) , "Ah, turn away that look", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Ah, détourne ce regard", copyright © 2008, (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: 9
Word count: 61

Ah, turn away this gaze

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Ah, turn away this gaze, turn away your face!
Don't fill my heart with ever renewing passion,
With ever renewing grief!

Whenever my tortured soul rests,
And my hot blood ceases to course with so feverish a frenzy
In my veins - 

A ray, a fleeting one, of your light,
Awakens the entire fury of my woe,
That like a serpent, stings my heart.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Frauenbilder und Huldigungen, in Dritte Periode, no. 5, Volume II, first published 1853
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 63