Sie schweigt und denkt mit trauervollen Gedanken ihrer fernen Toten. Ich habe sie vielen angeboten, Es hat sie keiner haben wollen. Ich trug sie feil auf allen Gassen, Es wollte sie keiner - sie kann nicht lachen! Was soll ich mit meiner Liebe machen? Ich will sie meinen Toten lassen.
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Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Meine Liebe", written c1902 [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 Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Meine Liebe", 1980 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El meu amor", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "My love", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2009-06-02
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