Venus, you and your child (Anonymous, set by (Jakob Regnart)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Linda Godry

Venus, du und dein Kind

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): ENG

Venus, du und dein Kind,
seid alle beide blind,
und pflegt auch zu verblenden,
we sich zu euch tut wenden,
wie ich wohl hab' erfahren,
in meinen jungen Jahren.

Amor, du Kindlein bloß,
wem dein vergiftes Gschoß,
das Herz einmal berühret,
der wird alsbald verführet,
wie ich wohl hab' erfahren,
in meinen jungen Jahren.

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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by Jakob Regnart , "Venus, du und dein Kind" [
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ENG English [singable] (Linda Godry) , title 1: "Venus, you and your child", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Linda Godry

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 54

Venus, you and your child

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Venus, you and your child
are both, are both born blind,
and those who do implore you,
do share the same sad fate,
as I have lived to see,
way back, when I was young.

Amor, you poor bare child,
oh those whose heart you hit
well with your poisoned arrow,
will soon give in beguiled,
as I have lived to see,
way back, when I was young.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 68