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by Magdelena Philippine Engelhard, née Gatterer (1756 - 1831) and sometimes misattributed to Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826)

Nichts kann mir Freude mehr gewähren
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Nichts kann mir Freude mehr gewähren --
  Bey allem sitz' ich kalt und stumm!
Oft schwimmt mein Aug' in trüben Zähren;
  Und ohne daß ich weiß warum.
Nie kann ich in den Scherz mich mengen,
  Der meinen Freundinnen gefällt:
Bis Seufzer sich auf Seufzer drängen,
  Und dann mein Busen Luft erhält.

Wie froh verflossen meine Tage,
  Eh ich dich, bester Theon, sah.
Mein Herz erschrickt bey jedem Schlage,
  Ich zittre, kömmst du mir zu nah!
Und ach! bey jedem deiner Blicke
  Gedenk' ich, bang und ahndungsvoll;
Bald kömmt, ach bald, der Lenz zurücke,
  Der uns -- auf ewig! -- trennen soll!

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Philippine Gatterer, Göttingen, gedruckt und verlegt bey Johann Christian Dieterich, 1778, page 142. Note: this poem has also been included in some anthologies of poems by Voss, as it was published under the pseudonym "Rosalia" and titled "Lied" in Poetische Blumenlese für das Jahr 1776, ed. by J. H. Voss, Lauenburg, Johann Georg Berenberg.


Text Authorship:

  • by Magdelena Philippine Engelhard, née Gatterer (1756 - 1831), "Das verliebte Mädchen" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
  • sometimes misattributed to Johann Heinrich Voss (1751 - 1826)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Carl Christian Agthe (1762 - 1797), "Das verliebte Mädchen" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814), "Nichts kann mir Freude mehr gewähren", published 1790 [ voice and piano ], from Oden und Lieder von Göthe, Bürger, Sprickmann, Voß und Thomsen, mit Melodien beym Klavier zu singen, Zweyter Theil, no. 19, Berlin, Joachim Pauli ; note: the text is misattributed to Voss in this collection [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 98

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