Ach! Wie ungern brachten wir ihn her!
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ach! und er soll hier bleiben!
Lasst uns auch bleiben,
lasst uns weinen an seinem Sarge!
Ach! wie ungern brachten wir ihn her!
Ah, how we hated bringing him here!
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Ah, and he shall remain here!
Let us also remain,
Let us weep by his coffin!
Ah, how we hated bringing him here!
Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Ach! Wie ungern brachten wir ihn her!
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ah, how we hated bringing him here!
English source:
Richard Stokes
Ach! wie ungern brachten wir ihn her!
Ah, how we hated bringing him here!
Ach! und er soll hier bleiben!
Ah, and he shall remain here!
Lasst uns auch bleiben,
Let us also remain,
lasst uns weinen an seinem Sarge!
Let us weep by his coffin!
Ach! wie ungern brachten wir ihn her!
Ah, how we hated bringing him here!
Composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He had been assured…
Poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on…