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Alle gingen, Herz, zur Ruh
German source:
Emanuel Geibel
Alle schlafen, nur nicht du.
Denn der hoffnungslose Kummer
Scheucht von deinem Bett den Schlummer,
Und dein Sinnen schweift in stummer
Sorge seiner Liebe zu.
All Have Gone to Rest, O heart
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
All are sleeping, all but you.
For hopeless grief
Banishes slumber from your bed,
And your thoughts fly in speechless
Sorrow to their love.
Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Alle gingen, Herz, zur Ruh
German source:
Emanuel Geibel
All Have Gone to Rest, O heart
English source:
Richard Stokes
Alle gingen, Herz, zur Ruh,
All have gone to rest, O heart,
Alle schlafen, nur nicht du.
All are sleeping, all but you.
Denn der hoffnungslose Kummer
For hopeless grief
Scheucht von deinem Bett den Schlummer,
Banishes slumber from your bed,
Und dein Sinnen schweift in stummer
And your thoughts fly in speechless
Sorge seiner Liebe zu.
Sorrow to their love.
Composer
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the…
Poet
Emanuel Geibel
Emanuel von Geibel , German poet and playwright. He was born at Lübeck, the son of a pastor. He was originally intended for his father's profession and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and…