Der sei nicht mein Genoss', der mir zum [Weine]1 beim vollen 
Becher [von]2 Fehden erzählt und [vom]3 leidigen Krieg;
[Vielmehr der in geselligem Frohsinn gerne der Musen 
Und Aphrodites holdseliger Gaben gedenkt.]4

Nicht nach der Thrakerin [mehr neigt]5 sich verlangend mein Herz.

[Zum Weintrinker gemacht bin ich.]6

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¹ Eisler: "Wein"
² Eisler: "nicht von"
³ Eisler: "nicht vom"
⁴ Eisler: "Sondern vielmehr in geselligem Frohsinn schwelgt und gerne von den Musen/ Und Aphrodites holdseligen Gaben mir schwätzt."
⁵ Eisler: "neigt"
⁶ Eisler: "Denn zum Weintrinker bin ich gemacht."

Text Authorship:

• by Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875), "Aus den Elegien", appears in Griechische Lyrik, in 5. Anakreon Lieder, no. 38-40 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Geselligkeit betreffend", 1943, from Anakreontische Fragmente, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Geselligkeit betreffend", from Hollywooder Liederbuch, no. 31 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-18
Line count: 6
Word count: 53

He shall not be my companion, who, to the accompaniment of a full goblet
Of wine, [talks]1 to me of feuds and of the tiresome war;
[But rather he who in convivial gaiety gladly turns his thoughts
To the muses and to Aphrodite’s fair gifts.]2
 
My heart [no longer]3 inclines itself longingly toward the Thracian.
 
[To be a wine-drinker I was created.]4