At parting (von Münch-Bellinghausen, set by (Johannes Brahms)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Eligius Franz Joseph, Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806 - 1871), as Friedrich Halm

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Beim Abschied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): DUT ENG FRE

Ich müh' mich ab und kann's nicht verschmerzen
Und kann's nicht verwinden in meinem Herzen,
Daß ich den und jenen soll sehen,
Im Kreis um mich herum sich drehen,
Der mich nicht machte froh noch trübe,
Ob er nun ging' oder bliebe,
Und nur die Eine soll von mir wandern,
Für die ich ertragen all die andern.

Authorship

by Eligius Franz Joseph, Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806 - 1871), as Friedrich Halm, in a section titled "Lieder und Liebe", from Gesammelte Werke, vol. 1, Vienna, first published 1856-72 [author's text not yet checked 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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Beim Abschied", op. 95 (Sieben Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme -- für 1 tiefe Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3 (1883?), published 1884 [high voice or low voice and piano], Berlin, Simrock [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "At parting", copyright ©
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , title 1: "Bij het afscheid", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Sur le départ", copyright © 2010, (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: 8
Word count: 57

At parting

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I struggle yet cannot get over -
and cannot overcome it in my heart -
that I should see this and that person
wandering about in my circle:
They make me neither happy nor sad,
whether they go or stay,
and yet just that very woman is going away,
for whose sake I tolerated all the others.

Authorship

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on

a text in German (Deutsch) by Eligius Franz Joseph, Freiherr von Münch-Bellinghausen (1806 - 1871), as Friedrich Halm, in a section titled "Lieder und Liebe", from Gesammelte Werke, vol. 1, Vienna, first published 1856-72

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 57