Songs

Kol domu se ted’ potácím, 'Around the house now I stagger'

by Antonín Dvořák From Písně Milostné (Love Songs) (1888) Op. 83 xii. 1888

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Text & Translation

Kol domu se ted’ potácím, 'Around the house now I stagger'
Czech source: Gustav Pfleger-Moravský

Kol domu se ted' potácím,
kdes bydlívala dříve,
a z lásky rány krvácím,
lásky sladké, lživé!

A smutným okem nazírám,
zdaž ke mně vedeš kroku:
a vstříc ti náruč otvírám,
však slzu cítím v oku!

Ó, kde jsi, drahá, kde jsi dnes,
což nepřijdeš mi vstříce?
Což nemám v srdci slast a ples,
tě uzřít nikdy více?

Around the house now I stagger
English translation © David Beveridge

Around the house now I stagger
where you used to live,
and from the wound of love I bleed,
of that love sweet, deceitful!

And with a sad eye I watch
whether you step toward me:
and toward you my arms I open,
but a tear I feel in my eye!

Oh where are you, dear one, where are you today?
Won’t you come toward me?
Am I not, with delight and joy in my heart,
to behold you ever again?

Kol domu se ted’ potácím, 'Around the house now I stagger'
Czech source: Gustav Pfleger-Moravský

Around the house now I stagger
English source: David Beveridge

Kol domu se ted' potácím,
Around the house now I stagger
kdes bydlívala dříve,
where you used to live,
a z lásky rány krvácím,
and from the wound of love I bleed,
lásky sladké, lživé!
of that love sweet, deceitful!

A smutným okem nazírám,
And with a sad eye I watch
zdaž ke mně vedeš kroku:
whether you step toward me:
a vstříc ti náruč otvírám,
and toward you my arms I open,
však slzu cítím v oku!
but a tear I feel in my eye!

Ó, kde jsi, drahá, kde jsi dnes,
Oh where are you, dear one, where are you today?
což nepřijdeš mi vstříce?
Won’t you come toward me?
Což nemám v srdci slast a ples,
Am I not, with delight and joy in my heart,
tě uzřít nikdy více?
to behold you ever again?

Composer

Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Read his full…

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