[Dem]1 Schnee, [dem]1 Regen,
Dem Wind entgegen,
Im Dampf der Klüfte,
Durch Nebeldüfte,
Immer zu! Immer zu!
Ohne Rast und Ruh!

Lieber durch Leiden
[Möcht']2 ich mich schlagen,
Als so viel Freuden
Des Lebens ertragen.
Alle das Neigen
[Von]3 Herzen zu Herzen,
Ach wie so eigen
Schaffet [das]4 Schmerzen!

Wie soll ich [fliehen?]5
Wälderwärts [ziehen?]6
[Alles]7 vergebens!
Krone des Lebens,
Glück ohne Ruh,
Liebe, bist du!

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 93, and with Goethe's Schriften, Achter Band, Leipzig, bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1789, pages 147-148.

¹ Harder: "Durch"
² Schubert (Alte Gesamtausgabe): "Wollt'"; Greger: "Will"
³ Reichardt: "Der"
⁴ Schubert (2nd version, and 1st version in Alte Gesamtausgabe): "es"
⁵ Reichardt, Schubert: "flieh'n"
⁶ Reichardt, Schubert: "zieh'n"
⁷ Schubert: "Alles, alles"

Authorship:

• by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Rastlose Liebe", written 1776, first published 1789 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Andrew Ager (b. 1962), "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 59 no. 4 (2012) [ voice and piano ], from Goethe Songs, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 60 no. 4, published 1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), "Rastlose Liebe", H. 149, B. 527 (1800-10), fragment [sung text not yet checked]
• by Victor Emanuel Bendix (1851 - 1926), "Rastlose Liebe", 1881-5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Gustav) Adolf Brandt (1838 - 1919), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 6 (Drei Lieder für 1 höhere Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1886 [ high voice and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Walter Braunfels (1882 - 1954), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 4 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 5 (c1905) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by August Leopold Crelle (1780 - 1855), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 3 (Zehn Gesänge am Fortepiano) no. 10 (1813/4), published 1867 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Moritz, Graf von Dietrichstein (1775 - 1864), "Rastlose Liebe", c1813/4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max (Traugott Maximillian) Eberwein (1775 - 1831), "Rastlose Liebe", 1826, published 1850 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 32 (Lieder und Gesänge von Goethe) no. 2, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 33 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, published 1859 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
• by Luise Greger (1862 - 1944), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 17 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by August Harder (1775 - 1813), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 11 (Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 5 (1806) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765 - 1814), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 21 no. 2 [ voice and piano or guitar ], from Sechs Lieder von Göthe mit Begleitung des Pianoforte oder der Guitarre, no. 2, Leipzig: A. Kühnel (Bureau de Musique) [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 9 (Zwölf Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, published [1871] [ voice and piano ], Berlin : Mitschler & Röstell - Collection Litolff ; No. 2015 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Ludwig) Bernhard Hopffer (1840 - 1877), "Rastlose Liebe", published 1886 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 6, Berlin, Ries & Erler  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Otto Jahn (1813 - 1869), "Rastlose Liebe" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eugène Jámbor (1853 - 1914), "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 10 no. 2, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Liebeslieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann Christoph Kienlen (1783 - 1829), "Rastlose Liebe", published 1810, from Zwölf Lieder von Goethe, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner (1823 - 1903), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 69 (Vier Gedichte von Goethe) no. 4, published 1882 [ men's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernhard (Joseph) Klein (1793 - 1832), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 41 (Vier Gedichte von Goethe) no. 3 (1830), published 1832 [sung text not yet checked]
• by R. von Knebel-Döberitz , "Rastlose Liebe", op. 10 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Julius Kniese (1848 - 1905), "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 6 (Acht Duette für 2 Frauenstimmen und Pianofortebegleitung) no. 8, published 1884 [ vocal duet for female voices with piano ], Breslau. Hainauer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849), "Rastlose Liebe", published 1825? [ duet for 2 voices and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by M. Krupka , "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 16 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Strassburg, Schiedmayer & Co.  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832), "Rastlose Liebe", c1830 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus (1827 - 1896), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 18 ([Neun] Lieder und Gesänge von Göthe), Heft 1 no. 1, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ignaz von Mosel (1772 - 1844), "Rastlose Liebe", published c1820/1 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Gedichte, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emil Naumann (1827 - 1888), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder für Mezzo-Sopran oder Bariton mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1856 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], Berlin, Bahn [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Carl) Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (1810 - 1849), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 23 [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Joseph) Joachim Raff (1822 - 1882), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 98 no. 23 (1855-63), from Sanges-Frühling, no. 23 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Eduard Rappoldi (1831 - 1903), "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 4 (Acht Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Rastlose Liebe", published 1794 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Rastlose Liebe", published 1808 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Karl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798 - 1859), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 53 (6 Lieder und Gesänge für eine Bass- oder Bariton-Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte ) no. 1, published [1829] [ bass or baritone and piano ], Dresden: Bei Wilhelm Paul [sung text not yet checked]
• by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 19a no. 5 (1909) [ voice and piano ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Goethe, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 5 (Fünf Lieder) no. 1, D 138 (1815), published 1821, first performed 1824 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 33 (Sechs Lieder für vierstimmigen Männergesang) no. 5 (1840), published 1842 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Hamburg, Schuberth und Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Anna Schuppe (d. 1903), "Rastlose Liebe", published 1886 [ men's chorus ], Leipzig, Licht & Meyer, in Der Chorgesang, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Artur Seemann (1861 - 1925), "Rastlose Liebe ", op. 13 no. 3, published [1919], from Suleika. Sieben Lieder für eine hohe Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung, no. 3, Leipzig: C. F. Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Rastlose Liebe", 1920 [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Karl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert (1811 - 1891), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 9 (Zwölf Lieder) no. 2, published 1832 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
• by Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (1774 - 1850), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 58 (Gedichte von Goethe: VI) no. 1 (1815?) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Vietor (flourished 1905-1930), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 10 no. 5 (1933) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Weber (1845 - 1887), "Rastlose Liebe", op. 2 (Fünf zweistimmige Lieder für Sopran und Alt mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1878 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Friedrich Zelter (1758 - 1832), "Rastlose Liebe", 1812 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Amor sense treva", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Rusteloze liefde", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Lynn Thompson) , "Restless love", copyright © 1997, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "Restless love", appears in The Poems of Goethe, first published 1853
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Amour sans repos", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "Amor sem descanso", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 66

Enfrentando a neve, a chuva, 
O vento,
Na humidade dos abismos
Através do odor da névoa,
Sempre! Sempre!
Sem descanso!

Prefiro bater-me
Antes no sofrimento,
A suportar 
Muitas alegrias da vida.

Toda a inclinação
De coração para coração
Ah, como é próprio
Produz a dor!

Como hei-de fugir?
Ir para a floresta?
Tudo em vão!
Coroa da vida,
Felicidade sem descanso,
És tu, amor!