by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Theodore Martin, Sir, KCB KCVO (1816 - 1909)
Were I a swallow
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Were I a swallow . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Authorship:
- by Theodore Martin, Sir, KCB KCVO (1816 - 1909)
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 53
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Herbert Bedford (1867 - 1945), "Were I a swallow", published 1893, note: translation omits first and last stanzas of the original
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