Loneliness | Loneliness, grave woman

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Einsamkeit

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Einsamkeit, ernsthafte Frau,
Tratest einst still in mein Zimmer,
Ach, und ich wollte dich nimmer,
Grüßte dich finster und rauh.

Nicktest nur milde dazu,
Ließest dich doch nicht verjagen,
Mußte dich eben ertragen,
Sangest mich heimlich zur Ruh.

Sieh, und nun weiß ich genau:
Wolltest du heut von mir scheiden,
Würde ich tief darunter leider,
Einsamkeit, ernsthafte Frau.

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Gedichte, Einundzwanzigste Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1905, page 156.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Einsamkeit", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Vermischte Gedichte, no. 54 [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), "Einsamkeit", op. 32 (Zehn kleine Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 8, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, (Junne.) [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexander von Fielitz (1860 - 1930), "Einsamkeit", op. 72 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 6, published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
by Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot (1841 - 1918), "Einsamkeit", published 1909 [ medium voice and piano ], from Zwölf Lieder von Anna Ritter für eine Mittelstimme (oder Bariton) mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig: Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
by Lili Hutterstrasser-Scheidl (1882 - 1942), as Lio Hans, "Einsamkeit" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Loneliness", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Solitude", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2019-05-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 58

Loneliness

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Loneliness, grave woman,
You once stepped quietly into my chamber,
Ah, and I never wanted you,
[I] greeted you darkly and roughly.

To that you only nodded mildly,
Yet did not let yourself be driven off,
I simply had to put up with you,
Secretly, you sang me to rest.

Lo, and now I know it precisely:
If you wished to part from me today,
I would suffer deeply as a result,
Loneliness, grave woman.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Einsamkeit", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Vermischte Gedichte, no. 54
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This text was added to the website: 2019-06-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 75