by William Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929)
Translation
How I adore thee
Language: English after the English
Love, love, when weeping wind on black rock mountain, moaning and groaning in tall dark tree tops, Love wind by twilight hair round serpent mountain, how I adore, adore thee!
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It is based on
- a text in English by William Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929), no title, appears in Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, no. 31 [an adaptation]
- a text in English by Henry Thornton Wharton (1846 - 1895) [text unavailable]
- a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000), "How I adore thee", op. 7 (1936) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Willis Barnstone (b. 1927) , "The Blast of Love", appears in Sappho Poems: A New Version, copyright © 1998 ; composed by Carol Barnett.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rudolf Bach (1901 - 1957) ; composed by Hermann Reutter.
Researcher for this page: Jean Nandi
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-30
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Word count: 30