Yearning for my beloved | Because of you I wept through the whole night in sorrow

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by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Sehnsucht nach dem Geliebten

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Um dich hab ich die ganze Nacht
In Weh durchweint, in Noth durchwacht,
Um dich begrüßt mit heißem Schlag
Mein Herz den grauen Wintertag --
Ach, wirst du kommen, Liebster mein,
Die Sonne dieses Tags zu sein?

Das Leben rinnt uns durch die Hand,
Ist jeder Tag ein Körnlein Sand,
Das häuft sich an und lastet schwer,
Darunter blüht kein Hoffen mehr --
O komm, so lang der Sonnenschein
Uns noch umleuchtet, Liebster mein!

Confirmed with Anna Ritter, Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, Fünfte Auflage, Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, 1900, page 90.

Text Authorship:

by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Sehnsucht nach dem Geliebten", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 4. Fremdes Leben, no. 12 [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 Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Sehnsucht nach dem Geliebten", op. 3 (6 Lieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier) no. 2 (1920) [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Walter Rabl (1873 - 1940), "Sehnsucht nach dem Geliebten", op. 10 no. 6 [ voice and piano ], from 6 Gedichte von Anna Ritter, für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 6, Leipzig: D. Rahter, n.d. [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Yearning for my beloved", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 72

Yearning for my beloved

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Because of you I wept through the whole night in sorrow,
Kept watch [through the whole night] in misery,
Because of you my heart greets
The grey winter day with fervent beating --
Ah, shall you come, my beloved,
To be the sun of this day?

Life runs through our hands,
Every day is a grain of sand,
[The sand] piles up and weighs heavily [upon me],
Under it no hope blossoms --
Oh come, as long as sunshine
Still shimmers about us, my beloved!

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Anna (Nuhn) Ritter (1865 - 1921), "Sehnsucht nach dem Geliebten", appears in Befreiung. Neue Gedichte, in 4. Fremdes Leben, no. 12
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This text was added to the website: 2024-01-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 83