Love is a dark shaft | Love is a dark shaft

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Hungarian (Magyar)

Our translations: AFR CAT DUT DUT ENG ENG FIN FIN FRE ITA

Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe,
ein gar zu gefährlicher Bronnen;
da fiel ich hinein, ich Armer,
kann weder hören noch sehn,
nur denken an meine Wonnen,
nur stöhnen in meinen Wehn.

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Confirmed with Georg Friedrich Daumer, Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, zweiter Band, Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstalt, 1855, page 122. Appears in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 15.

Text Authorship:

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 15 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), "A szerelem, a szerelem", written 1843
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Ein dunkeler Schacht ist Liebe", op. 52 no. 16 (1869), from Liebesliederwalzer, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pauline Kroger) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Love is a dark shaft", copyright ©
ENG English [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Milla Valkeasuo) , "Rakkaus on synkkä rotko", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "L'amour est un sombre puits", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 31

Love is a dark shaft

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

 Love is a dark shaft,
 a very dangerous well;
 and I, poor man, fell in.
 I can neither hear nor see,
 I can only think about my bliss,
 I can only moan in my woe.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Polydora, ein weltpoetisches Liederbuch, in Völkerstimmen in bunter Reihe, in Magyarisch, no. 15 [an adaptation]
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Hungarian (Magyar) by Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849), "A szerelem, a szerelem", written 1843
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 35