Nameless | Take, what only the gods understand!

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by Apollonius August, Freiherr von Maltitz (1795 - 1870)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Nimm, was Götter nur verstehen!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Nimm, was Götter nur verstehen!
Nimm der Liebe ganzen Schmerz!
Nimm, was Götter nicht verschmähen,
Nimm ein ganz zerrissnes Herz!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Lang

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Confirmed with Gedichte von A. von Maltitz, Erster Band, München: Druck von Georg Franz, 1838, page 73.

Text Authorship:

by Apollonius August, Freiherr von Maltitz (1795 - 1870), no title, appears in Gedichte, in Namenlose, no. 21, München: Georg Franz, first published 1838 [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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Namenlos", alternate title: "Namenloses", op. 13 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6 (1838), published 1841 [ voice and piano ], Europa, Chronik der gebildeten Welt, Heft 14 (1841), Mainz, Antwerpen, und Brüssel: B. Schott's Söhne (1847) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Nameless", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor], Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2006-12-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 20

Nameless

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Take, what only the gods understand!
Take the whole pain of love!
Take what the gods [themselves] do not spurn,
Take a completely torn heart!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Apollonius August, Freiherr von Maltitz (1795 - 1870), no title, appears in Gedichte, in Namenlose, no. 21, München: Georg Franz, first published 1838
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This text was added to the website: 2006-12-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 25