LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914)

An Dich verschwendet hat mein Herz
Language: German (Deutsch) 
An Dich verschwendet hat mein Herz
Sein bestes Gut und Blut,
Sein Träumen, Lachen und Weinen,
Sein Zagen und seinen Mut.

Und Du - Du gehst und blickst vorbei,
Du stolze Königin,
Du weisst, und willst [nicht]1 wissen,
Wie ganz verarmt ich bin;

Wie [bettelarm, wie]2 bettelstolz
Ich meine Strasse zieh'!
[Zum]3 Bettler bin ich geworden,
Doch betteln werd' ich nie!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Schreker 

About the headline (FAQ)

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Schreker: "es nicht"
2 Schreker: "bettelarm und"
3 Schreker: "Ein"

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Umsonst", appears in Gedichte, in Margarete [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 Camillo Horn (1860 - 1941), "Umsonst", op. 54 (Zwei Lieder für eine hohe Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung) no. 1, published 1906-1913 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachfolger [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Klengel (1854 - 1935), "An dich verschwendet hat mein Herz", op. 14 (Fünf Lieder für Alt (oder Mezzo-Sopran) mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1894 [ alto or mezzo-soprano and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz (August Julius) Schreker (1878 - 1934), "Umsonst", op. 3 no. 5, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Gedichte von Paul Heyse für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Leipzig, Robitschek [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Felix Semon, M. D. (1849 - 1921), "Umsonst", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Severin Warteresiewicz (1852 - 1923), "Umsonst", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebleitung) no. 5, published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Wüllner (1832 - 1902), "Umsonst", op. 34 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], München, Aibl [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Peter Donderwinkel

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris