Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen

Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Wie du mein Alles bist,
Wie ohne dich dies Leben
Nicht mehr zu denken ist.
 
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Wie sich mein ganzes Sein
In jeder Stunde wendet
Nach deinem Sonnenschein.
 
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Was alle Welt erlauscht,
Wovon die Quelle murmelt,
Wovon die Linde rauscht.
 
Wie aber kann ich's verschweigen,
Da du zu jeder Frist
Mein höchstes Denken und Sinnen,
Da du mein Alles bist.

Translation(s): ENG

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Submitted by Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Max Jähns (1837 - 1900) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen", op. 14 (6 deutsche Lieder) no. 6, published 1881. [voice and piano] [
   text verified 1 time
  ]
• by Arnold Krug (1849 - 1904), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen", op. 8 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [voice and piano], Leipzig: Forberg [
   text not verified 
  ]
• by Paul Umlauft (1853 - 1934), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1882 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Kahnt [
   text not verified 
  ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , title 1: "I would like to conceal from myself", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2011-06-01.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:41
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I would like to conceal from myself

I would like to conceal from myself
How you are everything to me,
How without you this life
Is no longer thinkable.
 
I would like to conceal from myself
How my entire being
At every hour turns
Toward your sunshine.
 
I would like to conceal from myself
What all the world has overheard,
What the springs murmur,
What the linden tree soughs.
 
But how can I conceal it,
When you at every moment
[Are] my highest thinking and meditation,
When you are everything to me[?]

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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Max Jähns (1837 - 1900)
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl, Arnold Krug, Paul Umlauft. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2011-06-01.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:04:24
Line count: 16
Word count: 85