Reply | How gloomy you are, beloved! How you trouble my heart!

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by (Johann Christoph) Friedrich Haug (1761 - 1829)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Antwort

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wie trübst du, Geliebter! wie trübst du mein Herz!
In Tränen gebadet, vergeh' ich vor Schmerz.
Nur du bist mein Alles, du Einziger mein;
Ich, deine getreue Marie, bin dein.

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by (Johann Christoph) Friedrich Haug (1761 - 1829) [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 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760 - 1802), "Antwort", published 1802, from the collection Kleine Balladen und Lieder, Heft IV, no. 6. [
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 30

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 How gloomy you are, beloved! How you trouble my heart!
 Bathed in tears, I am dying from pain.
 Only you are my Everything, my Only One.
 I, your faithful Mary, am yours.

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 33