My ring | You are wounding me with your pressure, you little gold fetter

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Mein Ring

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Du drückst mich wund, du kleine goldne Fessel
An meiner Hand,
Denn zwingend hältst du mir das junge Leben
Ans Grab gebannt!

Zwing auch, ich bitt' dich, meine Sehnsucht nieder
Und gieb mir Ruh,
Dann will ich klagelos dich weiter tragen,
Mein Ringlein du!

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Neunte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 178.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Mein Ring", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Nach Jahren, no. 15 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Hanns Avril (1879 - 1951), "Mein Ring", op. 10 no. 1, published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Ringlieder, no. 1, Nürnberg: Egon Schircks [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peter Otto Schneider (1901 - 1981), "Mein Ring", 1922-5 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "My ring", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-07-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

My ring

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

You are wounding me with your pressure, you little gold fetter
Upon my hand,
For you hold my young life forcibly
Bound to the grave!

Force down as well, I beg you, my yearning
And give me peace,
Then I shall continue to wear you uncomplainingly,
You, my little ring!

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Mein Ring", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Nach Jahren, no. 15
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This text was added to the website: 2024-01-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 50