Isolda Monologue from Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts

From Tristan and Isolda: Opera in Three Acts by Richard Wagner

female · anguished · 45 sec

Find in thy fears! Blood-guilt gets between us. (TRISTAN: That was absolved.) Not between us. (TRISTAN: In open field, 'fore all the folk our old feud was abandoned.) 'Twas not there I held Tantris hid when Tristan was laid low, He stood there brawny, bright and brave; but in his truce I took no part: my tongue its silence had learnt. When in chambered stillness sick he lay with the sword I stood before him, stern; silent--my lips, motionless--my hand. But that which my hand and lips had once vowed, I swore in stealth to adhere to: lo! now my desire I'm near to.

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