by
Max Jähns (1837 - 1900)
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Ich [möcht']1 es mir selber verschweigen,
Wie du mein Alles bist,
Wie ohne dich dies Leben
Nicht mehr zu denken ist.
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Wie sich mein ganzes Sein
[In]2 jeder Stunde wendet
Nach deinem Sonnenschein.
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen,
Was alle Welt erlauscht,
Wovon die Quelle murmelt,
Wovon die Linde rauscht.--
Wie aber kann ich's verschweigen,
Da du zu jeder Frist
Mein höchstes Denken und Sinnen,
Da du mein Alles bist.--
Available sung texts: (what is this?)
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Confirmed with Max Jähns, Ein Jahr der Jugend. Gedichte von Max Jähns, Dresden: Druck der National-Lotterie-Buchdruckereien von E. Blochmann u. S. und J. Ernst,, [1861], page 90.
1 Jähns: "möchte"; further changes may exist not shown above.
2 Schmutzler: "Zu"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen", op. 14 (6 deutsche Lieder) no. 6, published 1881 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns (1809 - 1888), "Mein Alles", op. 46, published 1863 [ tenor and piano ], Leipzig, Schuberth und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Krug (1849 - 1904), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen", op. 8 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Schmutzler (1843 - 1922), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen" [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Umlauft (1853 - 1934), "Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kahnt [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "I would like to conceal from myself", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 79
I would like to conceal from myself
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
I would like to conceal from myself
How you are everything to me,
How without you this life
Is no longer thinkable.
I would like to conceal from myself
How my entire being
At every hour turns
Toward your sunshine.
I would like to conceal from myself
What all the world has overheard,
What the springs murmur,
What the linden tree soughs.
But how can I conceal it,
When you at every moment
[Are] my highest thinking and meditation,
When you are everything to me[?]
Text Authorship:
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