by
Max Jähns (1837 - 1900)
Ich möcht' es mir selber verschweigen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Ich möcht' 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]1 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.
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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 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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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[?]
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