Present me with your golden comb | Present me with your golden comb

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE NOR

Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm;
Jeder Morgen soll dich mahnen,
Daß du mir die Haare küßtest.
Schenk mir deinen seidenen Schwamm;
Jeden Abend will ich ahnen,
Wem du dich im Bade rüstest,
O Maria!

Schenk mir Alles, was du hast;
Meine Seele ist nicht eitel,
Stolz empfang ich deinen Segen.
Schenk mir deine schwerste Last:
Willst du nicht auf meinen Scheitel
Auch dein Herz, dein Herz noch legen,
Magdalena?

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Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Jesus bettelt", appears in Weib und Welt [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 Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm", alternate title: "Jesus bettelt", op. 2 (4 Lieder) no. 2 (1899) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Present me with your golden comb", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Jésus mendie", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Jesus tigger / gi meg til gylne kam", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 69

Present me with your golden comb

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Present me with your golden comb;
every morning shall remind you
that you kissed my hair.
Present me with your silken sponge;
every night I want to have an idea
for whom you prepare yourself in the bath,
O Mary!

Present me with everything you have;
my soul is without vanity,
I receive your blessing with pride.
Bestow on me your heaviest burden:
don't you want to lay your heart -
also your heart - on my locks,
Magdalen?

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2007 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Jesus bettelt", appears in Weib und Welt
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This text was added to the website: 2007-01-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 77