Verzicht', o Herz, auf Rettung

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Translation by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Verzicht', o Herz, auf Rettung

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Turkish (Türkçe)

Our translations: AFR CAT DUT ENG ENG FIN FRE ITA

Verzicht', o Herz, auf Rettung,
  Dich wagend in der Liebe Meer!
Denn tausend Nachen schwimmen
  Zertrümmert am Gestad' umher!

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Confirmed with G.Fr. Daumer, Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte - Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, Hamburg: Bei Hoffmann und Campe, 1846, page 160.

Text Authorship:

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis - Eine Sammlung persischer Gedichte, in Poetische Zugaben aus verschiedenen Ländern und Völkern, in Türkisch, no. 5, first published 1846 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Turkish (Türkçe) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
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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), "Verzicht', o Herz, auf Rettung", op. 65 no. 1 (1875), published 1875 [ vocal quartet and piano four-hands or instrumental ensemble ], from Neue Liebeslieder, no. 1, Berlin, Simrock [sung text checked 1 time]

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