Raving winds around her blowing, Yellow leaves the woodlands strowing, By a river hoarsely roaring, Isabella stray'd deploring: "Farewell hours that late did measure "Sunshine days of joy and pleasure; "Hail thou gloomy night of sorrow, "Cheerless night that knows no morrow! "O'er the past too fondly wand'ring, "On the hopeless future pondering, "Chilly grief my life-blood freezes, "Fell despair my fancy seizes. "Life! thou soul of every blessing, "Load to misery most distressing, "O how gladly I'd resign thee, "And to dark oblivion join thee!"
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Confirmed with The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, Cambridge edition, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1897, page 210.
Text Authorship:
- by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Raving winds around her blowing" [author's text checked 1 time 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 (Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809), "The song of the old man of the wood (Cerdd yr hen-wr or coed) ", JHW. XXXII/4 no. 359, Hob. XXXIb no. 39 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Josef Václav Sládek) , "Kol jak vítr bouřně pěje"
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2011-09-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 86
Kol jak bouřně vichr věje, žluté listí lesem spěje, u řeky, jež hučíc proudí, Isabella v stesku bloudí. »S bohem, dni, jež přešly kmitem s radostmi a slunce svitem, — vítej, noci, plna lkání, bez útěchy, bez svítání! Na minulost vzpomínajíc, v budoucnu nic nedoufajíc jdu a krev mi mrzne žalem u zoufání neskonalém. Žití, jež jsi blaha duší, břímě těm, jež bolest kruší, ó jak bych tě svrhnout chtěla, kdybych jenom zapomněla!«
Confirmed with BURNS, Robert. Výbor z písní a ballad, translated by Josef Václav Sládek, Praha: J. Otto, 1892.
Text Authorship:
- by Josef Václav Sládek (1845 - 1912), "Kol jak vítr bouřně pěje" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "Raving winds around her blowing"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-08-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 73