by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Translation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
The cloud doth gather, the greenwood...
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
The cloud doth gather, the greenwood roar, The damsel paces along the shore; The billows they tumble with might, with might; And she flings out her voice to the darksome night; Her bosom is swelling with sorrow; The world it is empty, the heart will die, There's nothing to wish for beneath the sky: Thou Holy One, call Thy child away! I've lived and loved, and that was to-day -- Make ready my grave-clothes to-morrow.
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Text Authorship:
- by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834), "Thekla's Song" [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805), "Des Mädchens Klage", written 1798, first published 1799
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Wood (1866 - 1926), "Song of Thekla", 1885 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779 - 1850) [an adaptation] ; composed by Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse.
- Also set in English, a translation by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937) ; composed by Maude Valérie White.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Robert de Bonnières (1850 - 1905) , "Schiller : La plainte de la jeune fille" ; composed by Vincent d'Indy.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (1783 - 1852) , "Тоска по милом", written 1807 [an adaptation] ; composed by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Aliabev, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Pleshcheyev, Aleksei Nikolayevich Verstovsky, Mikhail Yur'yevich Viel'gorsky, Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya.
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