RÜCKERT: You My Soul, You My Heart

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Friedrich RÜCKERT (1788-1866), “Aus dem Liebesfrühling”, from Liebesfrühling, no. 4

Set by Bela Bartok (1881-1945), “Du meine Liebe, du mein Herz”, from Liebeslieder, no. 1. Translation © Emily Ezust, Lied & Art Song Texts Page.

Du meine Seele, du mein Herz



You my soul, you my heart,


you my bliss, o you my pain,


you the world in which I live;


you my heaven, in which I float,


o you my grave, into which


I eternally cast my grief.




You are rest, you are peace,


you are bestowed upon me from heaven.


That you love me makes me worthy of you;


your gaze transfigures me;


you raise me lovingly above myself,


my good spirit, my better self!




 



				

				
				 , September 11, 2008.   RÜCKERT		

			

				

				

					
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