Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed a set of six romances for voice and piano, Op.
6, in late 1869; the last of these songs is the melancholy "None but the Lonely Heart" (Russian: Нет, только тот, кто знал, romanized: Net, tol'ko tot, kto znal), a setting of Lev Mei's poem "The Harpist's Song" which in turn was a translation of "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" from Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
Gljazhu ja vdal'... net sil, tusknejet oko... Akh, kto menja ljubil i znal — daleko!
Vsja grud' gorit... Goethe's original Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt weiß, was ich leide!
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