by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Then finish the last song
Language: English  after the Bangla (Bengali)
Then finish the last song and let us leave. Forget this night when the night is no more. Whom do I try to clasp in my arms? Dreams can never be made captive. My eager hands press emptiness to my heart and it bruises my breast.
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Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 51, first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "Then finish the last song", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Tagore Love Songs, no. 11a [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "Then finish the last song", 2004 [ baritone and piano ], from Tagore Love Songs, no. 11b [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "Then finish the last song", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Secret of your Heart, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "Then finish the last song ", 2004 [ baritone and piano ], from The Sky with All its Stars, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1856 - 1943), "Forget the night", 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph D'Mello (b. 195?), "The gardener", 1999 [ tenor or baritone and clarinet ], from Tagore Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alistair Hinton (b. 1950), "Then finish the last song", op. 7 no. 4 (1970) [ high soprano and piano ], from Five Songs of Tagore, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950) , appears in Rabindranath Tagore. Der Gärtner, no. 51, first published 1916 ; composed by Willy Burkhard, Evelyn Faltis, Ján Móry, Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Alexander Zemlinsky.
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Franco Alfano, Luigi Gorgni.
- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894 - 1980) ; composed by Karol Maciej Szymanowski.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-11-04
Line count: 7
Word count: 46