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 Johann Christian Günther (1695 - 1723)

Gemüts‑Ruhe
 (Sung text for setting by G. Telemann)
 Matches base text
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
In der Ruh vergnügter Sinnen
steckt das höchste Gut der Welt;
und diess Kleinod zu gewinnen,
braucht man weder stat noch Geld:
weil ein jeder stündlich sieht,
daß, wer heute trotzt und blüht,
morgen oft am Ruder zieht.

Äusserliche pracht und güter
sind ein Schein verdeckter list,
die vor niedrige Gemüter
ein geschmücktes Fallbret ist;
wer hier blind und sicher trit,
dessen unbedachter Schritt
nimmt die Reu in Abgrund mit.

Composition:

    Set to music by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), "Gemüts-Ruhe"

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Christian Günther (1695 - 1723), appears in Weltliche Oden oder Lieder

Go to the general single-text view

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

  • ENG English (Poppy Holden) , "Composure", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Poppy Holden

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 70

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