Aan de woedende Diana | Ja, span gerust je boog om mij te doden

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by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Der zürnenden Diana

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA

Ja, spanne nur den Bogen, mich zu tödten,
Du himmlisch Weib! im [zornigen]¹ Erröthen
Noch reitzender. Ich werd' es nie bereuen:

Daß ich dich sah am [buschigen]² Gestade
Die Nymphen überragen in dem Bade;
Der Schönheit Funken in die Wildniß streuen.

Den Sterbenden wird noch dein Bild erfreuen.
Er athmet reiner, [athmet]³ freyer,
Wem du gestrahlet ohne Schleyer.

Dein Pfeil, er traf - doch linde rinnen
Die warmen Wellen aus der Wunde:
Noch zittert vor den matten Sinnen
Des Schauens süße letzte Stunde.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Schubert

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Johann Mayrhofer. Wien. Bey Friedrich Volke. 1824, page 158. Note: contemporary German would change the following spellings: "tödten" -> "töten", "Erröthen" -> "Erröten", "athmet" -> "atmet", "freyer" -> "freier", "Schleyer" -> "Schleier".

Please note: the title of this poem is not a mistake, as many have written to tell us. "Der" is the feminine dative case of the definite article; and the adjective that follows uses the proper matching weak-inflection ending.

¹ Schubert: "zürnenden"
² Schubert: "blühenden"
³ Schubert: "er athmet"

Text Authorship:

by Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (1787 - 1836), "Der zürnenden Diana" [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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Der zürnenden Diana", op. 36 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1, D 707 (1820), published 1825 [ voice, piano ], Cappi und Comp., VN 60, Wien [sung text checked 1 time]

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

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Aan de woedende Diana

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Ja, span gerust je boog om mij te doden,
Jij hemels wijf! Je woede maakt je roder
Maar mooier ook. Ik zal het nooit betreuren,

Dat ik je sloeg bij d' oeverbosjes gade;
De nimfen overstralend zag ik je baden
En schoonheidsvonken in de ruigte sturen.
 
Ja, stervend zal mij nog jouw beeld opbeuren.
Hij ademt reiner, hij ademt vrijer
Voor wie jij straalde zonder sluier.

Jouw pijl, hij trof, doch pijnloos stromen
De warme golven uit de wonde;
Nog siddert voor mijn matte ogen
Van 't zien de zoete laatste stonde.

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