Nimmer will ich dich verlieren
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nimmer will ich dich verlieren!
Liebe gibt der Liebe Kraft.
Magst du meine Jugend zieren
Mit gewaltiger Leidenschaft.
Ach! Wie schmeichelt's meinem Triebe,
Wenn man meinen Dichter preist.
Denn das Leben ist die Liebe,
Und des Lebens Leben Geist.
May I never lose you!
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
May I never lose you!
Love gives strength to love.
May you adorn my youth
With your powerful passion.
Ah! how flattered my own impulses feel
When I hear my poet praised.
For life is love,
And the mind is the life of life itself.
Nimmer will ich dich verlieren
German source:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
May I never lose you!
English source:
Richard Stokes
SULEIKA
SULEIKA
Nimmer will ich dich verlieren!
May I never lose you!
Liebe gibt der Liebe Kraft.
Love gives strength to love.
Magst du meine Jugend zieren
May you adorn my youth
Mit gewaltiger Leidenschaft.
With your powerful passion.
Ach! Wie schmeichelt's meinem Triebe,
Ah! how flattered my own impulses feel
Wenn man meinen Dichter preist.
When I hear my poet praised.
Denn das Leben ist die Liebe,
For life is love,
Und des Lebens Leben Geist.
And the mind is the life of life itself.
Composer
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the…
Poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on…