Beauty | Give yourself away, as proud as you are

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Schönheit

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Verschenke dich, so stolz du bist,
Verschenke alles, was du hast!
Die Jugend ist ein flüchtiger Gast,
Der bald gegangen ist.

Gib dich einem armen Knaben,
Dem du keine Liebe wehrst,
Mach ihn reich, so wirst du erst
Selber dich zu eigen haben.

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 187.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Schönheit", written 1911 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Ernst Beckert , "Schönheit", 1948-9 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Georg Meerwein (b. 1932), "Schönheit", 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Beauty", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-04-30
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Word count: 43

Beauty

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Give yourself away, as proud as you are,
Give away everything that you possess!
Youth is but a fleeting guest,
Who has soon departed.

Give yourself to a poor lad,
Whom you deny no love,
Make him rich, only then shall you
Truly belong to yourself.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Schönheit", written 1911
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This text was added to the website: 2019-05-30
Line count: 8
Word count: 46