Do not go, my love (Tagore, set by R. Hageman, B. Wegener-Koopman) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
I have watched all night, 
and now my eyes are heavy with sleep;
I fear lest I lose you when I am sleeping.
Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
I start up and stretch my hands to touch you.
I ask myself, "Is it a dream?"
Could I but entangle your feet with my heart,
And hold them fast to my breast!
Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

The Gardener

Based on

text

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Richard Hageman (1882-1966)

Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874-1953)

Love Songs

Set in Russian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS ENG ITA GER

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)

Set in Italian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS ENG ITA GER

Franco Alfano (1876-1954)

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

GER

German

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