Bin ein Niemand! Wer bist du?

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

I'm nobody

(Sung text for setting by G. Coates)

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Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER GER ITA

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd advertise, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong June
To an admiring bog!

Composition:

Gloria Coates

15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems: Second Series, first published 1891

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Walter A. Aue) , "Ich bin ein Niemand! Wer bist Du?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Io non sono nessuno, e tu?", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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