Nobody knows the secret place | How blissfully we dreamt, my darling!

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Weiss keiner den heimlichen Platz?

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wie träumten wir selig, mein Schatz!
Es ruhte der See uns zu Füßen
Und blinkte, als wollt' er uns grüßen --
Weiß Keiner den heimlichen Platz!

Weiß Keiner, wie oft mir dein Mund
Das Wort von den Lippen genommen, 
Weiß Keiner, wie Alles gekommen
Im blühenden, schweigenden Grund.

Der Sommer ist 'gangen, mein Schatz!
Das Glück brach der Sturm in Scherben,
Ich such' einen Winkel zum Sterben --
Weiß Keiner den heimlichen Platz.

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Neunte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 44.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Weiß Keiner den heimlichen Platz", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Das Ringlein sprang entzwei, no. 26 [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 Ernst Hans Fährmann (1860 - 1940), "Weiss keiner den heimlichen Platz?", op. 32 (Zehn kleine Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 1 no. 5, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, (Junne.) [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Nobody knows the secret place", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2023-09-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 71

Nobody knows the secret place

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

How blissfully we dreamt, my darling!
The lake rested at our feet
And twinkled as if it wanted to greet us --
Nobody knows the secret place!

Nobody knows how often your lips
Took the words from mine,
Nobody knows how it all came about
In the blossoming, silent vale.

The summer has gone, my darling!
Happiness was shattered into shards by the storm,
I seek a corner in which to die --
Nobody knows the secret place.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Weiß Keiner den heimlichen Platz", appears in Gedichte, in 1. Das Ringlein sprang entzwei, no. 26
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This text was added to the website: 2023-10-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 76