Title: She never told her love (Stets barg die Liebe sie)
Music: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Text: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
German Translator: Unknown (Note that Haydn set this song in English, not German)
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- PDF: She never told her love
- Key: A♭ Major
- Range: D4 – F5
- Source: German, French and Italian Song Classics
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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek…;
She sat, like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
German text:
Stets barg di Liebe sie,
doch dieses Bergen,
wie in Knospen ein Wurm,
zehrt’ ihre Wange ab.
Sie glich der Duldung auf dem Grabmal,
lächelnd traur’gen Blick’s.
- Recmusic.org has texts and translations.
