"Westwards the gaze roves" "Eastwards the ship streaks" "The wind blows fresh towards home" "My Irish child Where are you lingering?" "Is it the breath of your sighs" "That billows my sails?" "Blow, blow, you wind" "Woe, ah, woe, my child" "Irish girl" "You wild, lovesome girl" "Who dares to mock me?" "Brangaene, tell me" "Where are we?" "Strips of blue" "Are rising up to westward" "Calmly and quickly" "The ship sails on" "By evening, with a calm sea" "We shall safely reach land" "What land?" "Cornwall's green coast" "Never, not today nor tomorrow" "What do I hear, lady?" "Degenerate breed" "Unworthy of your ancestors" "Mother, to whom did you bestow the power" "To hold sway over sea and storms?" "How tame the art of the sorceress" "Who only brews healing potions" "Awake in me again, bold power" "Come out from the bosom" "Where you were hiding" "Hear my decree, you laggardly winds" "Rise up to battle and to strife" "To howling storms and raging whirlpools" "Drive from its sleep this dreaming ocean" "Awake from the depths its spiteful greed" "Show it the victim I offer" "Let it destroy this insolent ship" "Let it swallow the shattered fragments" "And all that lives and breathes upon it" "I leave to you, winds as your reward" "Woe, alas Alas for the bane that I foresaw" "Isolde, lady, dear heart" "What did you hide from me so long?" "Not a tear did you weep for father or mother" "Hardly a farewell you bade to those left behind" "Leaving your own country coldly and speechless" "Pale and silent" "On the voyage" "Without food, without sleep" "Numb and miserable" "Wildly distraught" "How did I endure to see you so" "To mean nothing to you" "To stand like a stranger before you?" "Now tell me" "What disturbs you" "Speak, tell me" "What grieves you" "Lady Isolde" "Dearest beauty" "If she is to show her worth to you" "Now confide in Brangaene" "Air, air My heart is stabbing me" "Open, open up there" "The wind blows fresh towards home" "My Irish child where are you lingering?" "Is it the breath of your sighs" "That billows my sails?" "Blow, wind, blow" "Woe, my child, woe" "Chosen for me" "Lost to me" "Glorious and robust" "Bold and cowardly" "I swore death" "To that head" "I swore death" "To that heart" "What do you think of that underling?" "Whom do you mean?" "That hero there" "Who from my eyes hides his own" "And ashamed and timid looks away" "Say, how does he look to you?" "Can you be asking about Tristan, dear lady?" "The marvel of all nations" "That highly praised man" "The peerless hero" "Guardian and champion of fame?" "Who, fearful of the blow" "Takes refuge where he can" "Since a bride as a corpse" "He won for his master" "Does it seem obscure to you what I say?" "Then ask him yourself that free man" "If he dares to approach me" "Respectful greetings and polite attention to his lady" "Are forgotten by that timorous hero" "For fear that her gaze might light" "On the peerless hero" "Oh, he knows well why" "Go to the haughty fellow" "Tell him what his lady says" "Ready to do my bidding" "He is promptly to attend on me" "Am I to ask him" "To give you good day?" "Let my command" "To that self-fancier" "Inspire fear of his lady" "Me, Isolde" "Watch out, Tristan A message from Isolde" "What is it ?" "From Isolde?" "From my lady?" "Is it my duty to listen" "To what is courteously told me by her faithful maid?" "My lord, Tristan" "To see you" "Is the wish of Isolde my mistress" "The long voyage distresses her" "It is coming to an end" "Before the sun has set" "We shall be on land" "What my lady commands me" "Shall be loyally fulfilled" "Then my lord Tristan will go to her" "That is my mistress's will" "Over there where the green meadows" "Still look blue to our gaze" "My king is waiting for my lady" "In order to conduct her to the king" "I shall soon approach her radiant self" "I will grant no other man that privilege" "My lord Tristan Listen well" "Your services are required by my lady" "You must attend on her instantly" "Over there where she waits for you" "On every spot where I stand" "I am loyally serving her" "The most highly honored among women" "If I left the rudder at this moment" "How could I steer the boat securely" "To King Mark's country?" "Tristan, my lord" "Why do you mock me?" "If you do not clearly understand this foolish maid" "Then hear my mistress's words" "She told me I should say this" "Let my command" "To that self-fancier" "Inspire fear of his lady" "Fear of Isolde" "May I give the answer?" "What then would you reply?" "Let her say this to Isolde" "Through Cornwall's crown" "And England's heritage" "Bestowed upon the maid of Ireland" "The maiden cannot treat as her property" "Him who gives her to his uncle" "A lord of the world" "Is Tristan the hero" "I will proclaim it Now tell her so" "Even though a thousand Isoldes may complain about me" "Sir Morold went forth to sea" "To extort taxes from Cornwall" "An island floats on the lonely sea" "And there he now lies buried" "But his head still hangs in Ireland" "As duty paid by England" "Hurrah for our lord Tristan" "How ably he pays his taxes" "But his head still hangs in Ireland" "As duty paid by England" "Hurrah for our lord Tristan" "How ably he pays his taxes" "Pain and sorrow to endure this" "Now tell me about Tristan I want to know in detail" "Oh, do not ask" "Tell me frankly without fear" "With courteous words he shirked the issue" "But when you plainly warned" "When I urgently called him to you" "Where he stands, he said" "He loyally serves her" "The most honored among women" "If he left the rudder at this moment" "How could he steer the boat securely" "To King Mark's country?" "How could he steer the boat securely" "To King Mark's country?" "To pay up the tax to him" "That he levied from Ireland" "At your own words when I reported them to him" "He let his faithful Kurwenal answer" "I heard him clearly" "No word escaped me" "Since you have learned my shame" "Now know what caused it" "How derisively they sing songs at me" "Yet I too could reply" "About a boat, small and wretched" "That floated to Ireland's coast" "Ill within it" "A sick man" "Lay miserable and dying" "Isolde's skill" "Was known to him" "With healing ointments" "And soothing potions" "The wounds that pained him" "She faithfully nursed there" "Tantris he called himself with careful guile" "But Isolde soon recognized him as Tristan" "When she noticed a nick in the patient's sword" "Into this spot A fragment fitted exactly" "That once, in the head of that Irish knight sent home to mock her" "With skillful hands she had discovered" "Then I cried out from the depths of my soul" "With that bright sword I stood before him" "That overweening man" "To avenge Sir Morold's death on him" "From his couch" "He looked up" "Not at the sword" "Not at the hand" "He looked me in the eyes" "His wretchedness moved me to pity" "The sword" "I let it fall" "I healed the wounds that Morold dealt" "So that he would return home healed" "And trouble me no more with his gaze" "Oh, miracle Where were my eyes?" "The visitor whom once I helped to nurse" "Just now you heard him acclaimed" "Hurrah for our hero Tristan" "He was that wretched man" "With a thousand oaths he vowed" "Eternal thanks and loyalty to me" "Now hear how a hero keeps his promises" "He who as Tantris I let go unrecognized" "As Tristan boldly returned" "On a stately ship with a lofty deck" "The heiress of Ireland he besought as bride" "For Cornwall's weary king" "His uncle Mark" "When Morold was alive" "Who would have ever dared" "To cause us such shame?" "For the tax-owing Cornish princes" "To go courting after Ireland's crown" "Oh, I am wretched" "It was I myself" "Who secretly brought shame on myself" "Instead of wielding that avenging sword" "I dropped it, powerless" "Now I am servant" "To that vassal" "When peace, reconciliation and friendship" "Were sworn by everybody" "We all rejoiced that day" "How could I have suspected that it would cause you sadness?" "O unseeing eyes" "Foolish hearts" "Docile spirits" "Fainthearted silence" "How differently he blurts out, that Tristan" "What I kept secret" "To him my silence gave life" "From his foe's revenge" "Silence concealed him" "My silent protection" "Afforded him his cure" "He surrendered all that and me" "Glowing with victory Hale and hearty" "Clear and loud He drew attention to me" "That would be a treasure" "My lord and uncle" "How would you like to marry her" "I'll bring the fair Irish maid here" "I'm well acquainted with paths and tracks" "One nod and I'll be off to Ireland" "Isolde will be yours" "The adventure delights me" "Curse you, villain" "A curse upon your head" "Revenge" "Death" "Death to us both" "My sweet, my darling" "My dear, my pretty" "Golden mistress" "Lovely Isolde" "Listen to me" "Come" "Sit down here" "What madness" "What pointless fury" "How can you delude yourself" "So that you do not see or hear clearly?" "Whatever Sir Tristan owes to you" "Tell me, could he repay it more highly" "Than with the most glorious of crowns?" "In this he has faithfully served his noble uncle" "And to you he has given" "The most enviable reward" "His own heritage rightful and noble" "He's renounced at your feet" "So as to hail you as queen" "And if he has won Mark" "As a husband for you" "Why should you complain of the choice?" "Should you not hold him in esteem?" "Of noble lineage" "And gentle disposition" "Who compares with this man" "In power or splendor?" "The king whom a most glorious hero serves so loyally" "Who would not want" "To share that lord's fortune" "And to dwell with him as spouse?" "Unloved" "By that most glorious man" "Yet always seeing him near me" "How could I endure the torture" "What are you thinking of Wicked girl?" "Unloved?" "Where does the man live" "Who would not love you?" "Who could see Isolde" "And not gladly die for Isolde's sake?" "Yet the man chosen for you" "Be he ever so cold" "Or be he turned away from you by a spell" "For all his wickedness" "I would know how to control him quickly" "The power of love would tame him" "Do you know your mother's arts or not?" "Do you imagine that she who always ponders wisely" "Would not have prepared for the foreign land" "To which she sent me with you?" "My mother's preparation" "I remember well" "I value and welcome her art" "Revenge for betrayal" "My heart's comfort in distress" "That chest there Bring it to me" "It contains something to bring you help" "Your mother disposed them so" "The powerful magic potions" "For pains and wounds this ointment here" "For deadly poisons an antidote" "The most marvelous potion" "Is the one I hold here" "You're wrong" "I know it better" "I cut a deep mark into it" "This is the potion for my purpose" "The potion of death" "Ho, hey Lower mast" "Ha, hey Shorten sail" "Ho, hey Lower mast" " Shorten sail" " That means a quick voyage" "Woe's me Land is near" "Up, up, you women" "Brisk and cheerful, look lively now Get ready, quick and spry" "And to the Lady Isolde I am to say" "From Tristan the hero my master" "From the masthead let the flag of joy" "Cheerfully blow towards land" "In Mark's royal castle" "Let it give news of her approach" "Therefore Lady Isolde is bidden to hurry" "And make ready for landing" "So that he can escort her" "Bring Sir Tristan my greeting" "And tell him what I say" "If I am to go at his side" "And stand before King Mark" "It cannot rightly and properly happen" "Unless I receive an apology beforehand" "For an unexpiated wrong" "So let him seek my pardon" "Take careful note and report it truly" "I am not willing to get ready" "To accompany him ashore" "I will not walk beside him" "To stand before King Mark" "He must beseech me to forgive and forget" "As is right and proper beforehand" "For an unexpiated wrong" "My pardon would grant that to him" "Know for sure that I will tell him this" "Now wait and see how he reacts" "Farewell now, Brangaene" "Give the world my regards" "Greet my father and mother" "What is it?" "What are you planning?" "Did you want to run away?" "Where shall I follow you?" "Did you not hear?" "I shall remain here" "I am expecting Tristan" "Faithfully obey my command" "The potion of atonement must be prepared quickly" "You know the one I showed you?" "Which one?" "This potion" "Into the golden goblet pour it out" "When it is full, it holds it all" " Can I believe my ears?" " Be true to me" "The potion?" "For whom?" "Tristan?" "He who betrayed me must drink to my forgiveness" "Appalling Spare my wretchedness" "You must spare me disloyal maid" "Do you know my mother's arts or not?" "Do you imagine that she who always ponders wisely" "Would not have prepared for the foreign land" "To which she sent me with you?" "For pain and wounds" "She provided ointment" "For deadly poisons" "An antidote" "For deepest pain" "For surpassing sorrow" "She gave me" "The death potion" "Now let death" "Be grateful to her" "O deepest pain" "Now will you obey me?" "O surpassing sorrow" " Are you loyal to me?" " The potion" "Sir Tristan" "Let Sir Tristan" "Draw near" "Lady, demand what you wish" "Do you not know what I demand" "Since fear of fulfilling it for me" "Kept you far from my sight?" "Respect kept me in awe" "Scant respect" "You have offered me" "With open scorn you withheld obedience to my orders" "Only obedience held me in check" "I should have little to thank your master" "If your service demanded bad manners to his own bride" "Where I have lived convention dictates" "That on the bridal journey the bride's escort" "Should keep far from the bride" "For fear of what?" "Ask convention" "As you are so conventional my lord Tristan" "One other convention must now be recalled" "You must make your peace with an enemy" "If he is to honor you as a friend" "What enemy?" "Ask your own fear" "Bloodguilt hangs between us" " It was atoned for" " Not between us" "In the open field before all the people" "An oath of truce was sworn" "It was not there where I hid Tantris" "Where Tristan was my victim" "There he stood in splendor" "Hale and hearty" "But what he swore" "I did not swear" "I had learned to hold my peace" "When in the quiet room he lay ill" "Silent with the sword I stood before him" "I did not open my mouth" "My hands did not move" "But what once with hand and mouth I vowed" "I swore to fulfill silently" "Now I will keep my vow" "What did you swear, lady?" "Revenge for Morold" " Does that trouble you?" " Do you dare to mock me?" "He was betrothed to me" "The glorious Irish hero" "His weapons I had consecrated" "For me he went out to battle" "When he fell" "My honor fell" "Heavy at heart" "I swore the oath" "If a man would not avenge the murder" "I, a maid, would dare it" "As you lay sick and feeble" "In my power" "Why did I not strike you down then?" "Say it yourself The words are easy" "I tended his wounds" "So that, hale and hearty he would be killed in revenge" "By the man who won Isolde from him" "Your fate you may now discern for yourself" "Since all men are now allied with Tristan" "Who now must slay him?" "If Morold was so dear to you" "Then take this sword once more" "And drive it sure and firm" "Lest it slip from your hand" "How poorly I would be treating your master" "What would King Mark say" "If I slew his best vassal" "The man who won him his crown and his land" "The most loyal of all his men?" "Do you deem his debt to you so little" "For bringing the Irish maid to him as his bride?" "Would he not scold me" "If I slaughtered the suitor" "Who delivered the hostage of peace faithfully into his hands?" "Sheathe your sword" "That first time I raised it" "When my vengeance raged in my bosom" "While your calculating eyes" "Took their measure of me" "To see whether I would make King Mark a worthy bride" "Then I let the sword drop" "Now" "Let us drink to reconciliation" "Ho, hey Topmast" "Ha, hey Shorten sail" "Ho, hey Topmast" "Ha, hey Shorten sail" "Where are we?" "Close to our destination" "Tristan, will I get my apology?" "What have you to say to me?" "The mistress of silence bids me be silent" "I have understood what she concealed" "Now I shall conceal" "What she does not understand" "I understand your silence" "Though you evade me" "Are you refusing me reconciliation?" "Do you hear their shouts?" "We are at our destination" "In just a few moments" "We shall stand before King Mark" "When you escort me" "Wouldn't you think it fair" "If you were thus to tell him" "My master and uncle Just look at her" "A gentler wife you could never have won" "Her bridegroom I once murdered" "And sent his head home to her" "The wounds that his weapons inflicted on me" "She tenderly healed" "My life lay in her power" "She granted it to me" "That lovely girl" "And her country's shame and disgrace" "She granted along with it" "So as to be your bride" "For such good gifts" "I am heartily thankful" "Since she made me a sweet potion of atonement" "With it she granted me pardon" "Expiating all my guilt" "Haul on lines" "Drop anchor" "Away with the anchor To the tide with the rudder" "To the winds with sail and mast" "Well I know Ireland's queen" "And her arts' magic power" "I used the ointment she offered me" "Now I take the cup" "So that today I may be healed completely" "And heed as well the oath of atonement" "That I give you in thanks" "Tristan's honor" "Supreme faith" "Tristan's suffering" "Boldest defiance" "A trick of the heart" "A dream of premonition" "Eternal mourning's only comfort" "Oblivion's kindly potion" "I drink you unflinching" "Cheated here as well?" "Half is for me" "Traitor" "I drink to you" "Tristan" "Isolde" "Faithless beloved" "Angelic woman" "Hail, hail, King Mark" "Sorrow, sorrow" "Inescapable endless grief instead of sudden death" "My foolish loyalty made me act deceitfully" "And now misery is the result" "What did I dream about Tristan's honor?" "What did I dream about Isolde's disgrace?" " Are you lost to me?" " Are you banished from me?" " Insidious magic's deceitful guile" " Foolish anger's vain threats" " Isolde" " Tristan" " Sweetest woman" " Most beloved man" "How our hearts surge like waves" "How all our senses tremble with delight" "Yearning love's expanding blossoms" "Longing passion's blessed warmth" "Suddenly in my bosom a jubilant delight" " Isolde" " Tristan" " Isolde" " Escaped from the world" " Isolde is won for me" " You are won for me, Tristan" " Isolde" " You are won for me" "I am only conscious of you" "Love's supreme delight" "Quickly, the cloak the royal robe" "Hapless ones, wake up Do you hear where we are?" "Hail, hail, hail" "Hail, King Mark" "Hail to the king" "Hail, Tristan Lucky hero" "Hail, King Mark" "With an entourage on a boat there" "King Mark draws near" "How he enjoys the trip that will win him his bride" "Who is coming?" "The king" "What king?" "Hail, hail, King Mark" "What is it, Brangaene?" "What is that shouting?" "Mistress Isolde Compose yourself this once" "Where am I?" "Am I alive?" "What was that drink?" "The love potion" " Tristan" " Isolde" " Do I have to live?" " Help your mistress" "O spiteful rapture" "O happiness born of deceit" "Cornwall, hail"