Joyless love | I went out to seek love

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Freudlose Liebe

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Ging aus, die Lieb zu suchen
Und fand die Leidenschaft,
Die hat mit heißem Athem
Mein Blühen weggerafft.

Nun kommt die Lieb gegangen
Und schaut mich traurig an,
Weil ich nicht eine Blume
Der Holden bieten kann.

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Neunte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 177.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Freudlose Liebe", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Nach Jahren, no. 14 [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 Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl (1882 - 1942), as Lio Hans, "Freudlose Liebe", c1924 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Joyless love", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2017-01-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

Joyless love

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I went out to seek love
And found passion,
Which, with its hot breath,
Swept away my blossoming.

Now love comes along
And gazes at me sadly
Because I cannot offer a single flower
To the lovely one.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Freudlose Liebe", appears in Gedichte, in 3. Nach Jahren, no. 14
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This text was added to the website: 2023-11-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 38