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by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by František Balej (1873 - 1918)

Love, my heart longs day and night
Language: English  after the Bangla (Bengali) 
Our translations:  GER
Love, my heart longs day and night 
for the meeting with you -- for the meeting
that is like all devouring death. 

Sweep me away like a storm;
take everything I have; 
break open my sleep and plunder my dreams.
Rob me of my world. 

In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit,
let us become one in beauty.
Alas for my vain desire! 
Where is this hope for union
except in thee, my God?

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 50, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Raymond Hanson (1913 - 1976), "Love, my heart longs", op. 39 no. 6 (1959/60) [ tenor and piano ], from Seven songs from The Gardener , no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Love, my heart longs day and night", op. 30 no. 1, published 1915 [ soprano and piano ], from Deux poemes d'amour, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874 - 1953), "Love, my heart longs day and night", published 1916, from Love Songs, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Jan Śliwiński) , no title, appears in Rabindranath Tagore. Der Gärtner, no. 50, first published 1916
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 75

Lásko má
Language: Czech (Čeština)  after the English 
Lásko má, duše moje touží
setkat se s tebou, tě mít, a tvou býti stále,
smrt, jak když v drtící náruč mne chvátí.

Smeť mne jen pryč jako bouř,
vem všecko, svým co zovu.
znič mi můj spánek a vyrvi moje snění.
Vráz uchvať můj celý svět!

A v této pak poušti, v této slední nahotě duše,
spolu nechť splyneme v kráse!
Marna všecka ta touha!
Kde je ten, s nímž takto splynout možno,
než jedině Ty, můj Bůh?

Text Authorship:

  • by František Balej (1873 - 1918) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 50, first published 1913
    • Go to the text page.

Based on:

  • a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951), "Lásko má", op. 96 no. 5 (1914) [soprano and orchestra or piano], from Milostné písne na slova Rabindranátha Thákura, no. 5. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-11-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 79

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