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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Meine frühverliehnen Lieder
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Meine frühverliehnen
Lieder oft in der Ruh
überrankter Ruinen
sang ich dem Abend sie zu.

Hätte sie gerne zu Ronden
aneinandergereiht
einer erwachsenen Blonden
als Geschenk und Geschmeid.

Aber unter allen
war ich einzig allein;
und so ließ ich sie fallen:
sie verrollten wie lose Korallen
weit in den Abend hinein.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) [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 Fabio Costa (b. 1971), "Meine frühverliehnen Lieder" [ voice and piano ], from 3 Late-Romantic Lieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gisela Schlesinger Selden-Goth (1884 - 1975), "Meine früh verliehnen Lieder" [ voice and piano ], Berlin-Halensee : Harmonie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "Meine frühverliehnen Lieder", 1941-1946 [ soprano and piano ], from Acht Lieder, no. 8, Southern Music Company [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Tristan Schulze , "Meine frühverliehnen Lieder", 2015 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Rudolph T. Werther (1896 - 1986), "Meine frühverliehnen Lieder", 1939 [ tenor and piano ], from Lieder: 20 poems from Frühe Gedichte (Rainer Maria Rilke), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Ruth Schonthal) , "My early lent-away songs", copyright ©


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 51

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