tristan und isolde: mild und leise (liebestod)

John 2021-12-24 08:01:30


I wonder, by my troth, what you and I

Did, till we loved? Where we not

weaned till then, But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

'Twas so; But this, all pleasures fancies be.

If ever any beauty I did see,

Which I desired, and got,'twas but a dream of thee.



And now good morrow to our waking souls,

Which watch not one another out of fear;

For love all love of other sights controls,

And makes one little room an everywhere.

Let sea-discovers to new worlds have gone,

Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,

Let us posses one world; each hath one, and is one.



My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,

And true plain hearts do in he faces rest;

Where can we find two better hemispheres

Without sharp North, without declining West?

Whatever dies was not mixed equally;

If our two loves be one, or thou and I

Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.



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Tristan + Isolde quotes

  • Tristan: [fleeing Ireland] Come with me.

    Isolde: I can't.

    Tristan: Why not?

    Isolde: We both know this cannot be, Tristan. We knew it from the start. That doesn't mean it wasn't true, it is.

  • Isolde: And what of your parents?

    Tristan: They also died when I was a child.

    Isolde: From what?

    Tristan: A different type of Irish kindness.