Secret | I carry a rapturous secret

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Geheimnis

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG ENG FRE

Ich trag' ein [glückselig] ¹ Geheimnis
Mit mir herum,
Ich möchts allen Leuten vertrauen
Und bleib' doch stumm!
Ach, jubeln [möcht']² ich und singen,
Von früh bis spät --
Und rege nur heimlich die Lippen,
Wie zum Gebet!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Reger

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, Fünfte Auflage, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 3.

¹ Reger: "glückseliges"
² Reger: "möchte"

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Geheimnis", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 1. Aus seliger Zeit , no. 1 [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 Mathieu Neumann (1867 - 1928), "Geheimnis", op. 55 no. 1, published 1904, from Aus seliger Zeit, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Geheimnis", 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Liebeslieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Edmund von Strauß (1869 - 1919), "Geheimnis" [ medium voice and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Secret", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Secret", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Secret", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Secret", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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

This text was added to the website: 2007-07-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 38

Secret

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

I carry a rapturous secret
Around with me,
I would like to confide it to everyone
And yet I remain mute!
Ah, I would like to rejoice and sing,
From early to late -
And yet I only secretly move my lips
As if in prayer!

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Geheimnis", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 1. Aus seliger Zeit , no. 1
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This text was added to the website: 2014-03-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 45