Puissé-je jamais te perdre !

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sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) and by Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Nimmer will ich dich verlieren!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE ITA

Nimmer will ich dich verlieren!
Liebe gibt der Liebe Kraft.
Magst du meine Jugend zieren
Mit [gewalt'ger]¹ Leidenschaft.
Ach! Wie schmeichelts meinem Triebe,
Wenn man meinen Dichter preist:
Denn das Leben ist die Liebe,
Und des Lebens Leben Geist.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• M. Wegelius • H. Wolf

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Confirmed with Goethes Briefwechsel mit Marianne von Willemer, ed. by Max Becker, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1922, page XLIII, in a letter to Goethe, who published the poem under his own name for various reasons described in Goethe and His Publishers by Siegfried Unseld, translated by Kenneth J. Northcott, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, page 360, note 12.

¹ Wegelius, Wolf: "gewaltiger"

Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
by Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860), no title [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 Martin Wegelius (1846 - 1906), "Nimmer will ich dich verlieren", 1876 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Nimmer will ich dich verlieren", 1888, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 48, Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 40

Puissé‑je jamais te perdre !

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Puissé-je jamais te perdre !
L'amour donne de la force à l'amour.
Puisses-tu orner ma jeunesse
D'une passion immense.
Ah ! Comme ma personnalité est flattée
Quand on loue mon poète !
Car la vie est l'amour,
Et l'esprit est l'essence de la vie.

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Translation of title "Nimmer will ich dich verlieren" = "Puissé-je jamais te perdre !"

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a text in German (Deutsch) misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) and by Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2014-11-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 41