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by Robert Eduard Prutz (1816 - 1872)

Ich will's dir nimmer sagen
 (Sung text for setting by P. von Decker)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ich will's dir nimmer sagen,
Wie ich so lieb dich hab',
Im Herzen will ich's tragen,
Will stumm sein wie das Grab.

Kein Lied soll dir's gestehen,
Soll flehen um mein Glück,
Du selber sollst es sehen,
Du selbst -- in meinem Blick.

Und kannst du es nicht lesen,
Was dort so zärtlich spricht,
So ist's ein Traum gewesen;
Dem Träumer zürne nicht.

Composition:

    Set to music by Pauline von Decker (1811 - 1882), as Paul Friedrich Merxhausen, "Ich will's dir nimmer sagen", op. 3 (Zwei Lieder von Rückert und Prutz) no. 1, published 1872 [ voice and piano ], Berlin: Trautwein

Text Authorship:

  • by Robert Eduard Prutz (1816 - 1872), no title, appears in Buch der Liebe, in 2. Zweites Buch, in Frühlingsliebe, no. 2

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) (Harald Krebs) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (Gwendolen Gore) , "My secret"


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 62

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