Parish Alvars:

Illustrations of German Poetry No. 2 «Gretchen’s Gebet vor dem Bilde der Mater Dolorosa», op. 72

Schott, 1844
7 pages.

A beautiful Romance by Parish Alvars, defined by Berlioz as The Liszt of the Harp inspired by this poem:
Wherever I go,
How it aches, how it aches, how it aches
Here in my heart,
Scarcely am I alone,
I weep, I weep, I weep,
Within me the heart breaks.

The words are not from Goethe’s Faust, but clearly the piece is one of many Gretchen (Marguerite) inspired pieces.