Cupido, loser, eigensinniger Knabe!
Language: German (Deutsch)
Our translations: ENG FRE
Cupido, loser, eigensinniger Knabe!
Du batst mich um Quartier auf einige Stunden.
Wie viele Tag und Nächte bist du geblieben!
Und bist nun herrisch und Meister im Hause geworden!
Von meinem breiten Lager bin ich vertrieben;
Nun sitz ich an der Erde, Nächte gequälet;
Dein Mutwill schüret Flamm auf Flamme des Herdes,
Verbrennet den Vorrat des Winters und senget mich Armen.
Du hast mir mein Geräte verstellt und verschoben;
Ich such und bin wie blind und irre geworden.
Du lärmst so ungeschickt; ich fürchte, das Seelchen
Entflieht, um dir zu entfliehn, und räumet die Hütte.
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Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Cupido, loser Knabe", op. 33 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich Hinrichs (1820 - 1892), "Italienisches Lied", op. 5 (Sechs Gedichte für Bass-Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1864 [ bass and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Der Liebe Macht", op. 55 (Neun Lieder nach Gedichten von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) no. 4 (1911) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (1812 - 1877), "Cupido, loser, eigensinniger Knabe", op. 26 (Zwölf Gesänge für eine Singstimme und Piano), Heft 2 no. 3, published 1849 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote und Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Urspruch (1850 - 1907), "Cupido! loser, eigensinniger Knabe", op. 15 (Sechs Gesänge für S., A., T. und B.) no. 3, published 1882 [ SATB chorus ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Cupid, mischievous boy", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (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: 12
Word count: 95
Cupid, mischievous boy
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Cupid, mischievous, capricious boy!
You asked me to give you shelter for a few hours.
But how many days and nights you have remained!
And now you've become imperious as if you were the master of the house!
I have been ousted from my broad bed;
I sit now upon the earth, passing my nights in torment;
in your audacity, you stoke flame upon flame in the hearth,
burning up my store for winter and singing me on the arm.
You have hidden and displaced my belongings;
I search and it's as if I've gone blind or insane.
You make such blundering noise that I fear that my little soul
will flee, and in order to escape you, will move out of the hut entirely!
Text Authorship:
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 125