Nothing comes, nothing will ever come for my Soul | Nothing comes, nothing will ever come for my Soul

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by Richard Engländer (1859 - 1919), as Peter Altenberg

Translation © by Anne Ozorio

Nichts is gekommen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE ITA

Nichts ist gekommen, nichts wird kommen für meine Seele.
Ich habe gewartet, gewartet, oh - gewartet!
Die Tage werden dahinschleichen, und umsonst wehen
meine aschblonden seidenen Haare um mein bleiches Antlitz!

Text Authorship:

by Richard Engländer (1859 - 1919), as Peter Altenberg [author's text not yet checked 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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Nichts is gekommen", from Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "Res no ha passat", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Anne Ozorio) , "Nothing comes, nothing will ever come for my Soul", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Niente è arrivato", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jeroen Scholten

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 30

Nothing comes, nothing will ever come for my Soul

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Nothing comes, nothing will ever come for my Soul.
I have waited, waited, oh waited !
The days are creeping past, they flutter away.
My ashblond silken hair blows pointlessly over my sallow face.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Engländer (1859 - 1919), as Peter Altenberg
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 33