Robin Adair (Volkslieder (Folksongs), set by L. Beethoven) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Since all thy vows, false maid, are blown to air,
And my poor heart betray'd to sad despair,
Into some wilderness,
My grief I will express
And thy hardheartedness,
O cruel Fair!

Some gloomy place I'll find, some doleful shade
Where neither sun nor wind e'er entrance had:
Into that hollow cave,
There will I sigh and rave,
Because thou dost behave
So faithlessly.

I'll have no funeral fire, nor tears for me,
No grave do I desire, no obsequie;
The courteous redbreast, he,
With leaves will cover me
And sing my elegy
With doleful voice.

And when a ghost I am, I'll visit thee:
O thou deceitful dame, whose cruelty
Has kill'd the kindest heart
That e'er felt Cupid's dart,
And never can desert
From loving thee.

Input by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Authorship

Volkslieder (Folksongs)

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

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

12 songs of various nationalities

Date added to the website: 2005-12-08.

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