LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,120)
  • Text Authors (19,527)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

×

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation © by Emily Ezust

Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Warte, warte, wilder [Schiffsmann]1,
gleich folg' ich zum Hafen dir;
von zwei Jungfraun nehm' ich Abschied,
von Europa und von ihr.

Blutquell, rinn' aus meinen Augen,
Blutquell, brich aus meinem Leib,
daß ich mit dem heißen Blute
meine Schmerzen niederschreib'.

Ei, mein Lieb, warum just heute
[schauderst du]2, mein Blut zu sehn?
Sahst mich bleich und herzeblutend
lange Jahre vor dir [stehn!]3

Kennst du noch das alte Liedchen
von der Schlang' im Paradies,
die durch schlimme Apfelgabe
unsern Ahn ins Elend stieß.

Alles Unheil brachten Äpfel!
Eva bracht' damit den Tod,
Eris brachte Trojas Flammen,
du brachst'st beides, Flamm' und Tod.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   R. Schumann 

About the headline (FAQ)

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Schumann: "Schiffmann"
2 Schumann: "schaudert's dich"
3 Schumann: "stehn! Oh!"

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Junge Leiden, in Lieder, no. 6 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Nehm ich Abscheid", 2007 [ tenor or baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Paul Claussnitzer (1867 - 1924), "Warte", op. 2 (Sieben kleine Chöre für vier Männerstimmen) no. 4, published 1896 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Loebel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann", from Liederkreis, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann" [ voice and piano ], from Buch der Lieder - Junge Leiden - Lieder, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Warte, warte wilder Schiffmann", op. 24 no. 6 (1840), published 1840 [ voice and piano ], from Liederkreis von Heinrich Heine, no. 6, Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
  • by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Buch der Lieder - Junge Leiden", 2014 [ voice and piano ]
    • View the full text. [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Wacht, o wacht toch, wilde schipper", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Wait, wait, wild boatman", copyright ©
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Attends, attends, satané marin", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Aspetta, aspetta, nocchiero selvaggio", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 106

Wait, wait, wild boatman
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
 Wait, wait, wild boatman,
 soon I'll follow you to the harbor;
 from two maidens I am taking my leave,
 from Europe and from Her.
 
 Stream of blood, run from my eyes,
 stream of blood, burst from my body,
 so that with this hot blood
 I can write down my agonies.
 
 Ah, my dear, why just today
 do you shudder to see my blood?
 You've seen me pale, my heart bleeding,
 standing before you for many years!
 
 Do you know that old song
 about the serpent in Paradise
 who, by wickedly giving an apple,
 threw our ancestors into misery?
 
 Apples have caused every ill!
 Eve brought death through them,
 Eris caused the flames of Troy;
 and you brought both, flame and death.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust

    Emily Ezust permits her translations to be reproduced without prior permission for printed (not online) programs to free-admission concerts only, provided the following credit is given:

    Translation copyright © by Emily Ezust,
    from the LiederNet Archive

    For any other purpose, please write to the e-mail address below to request permission and discuss possible fees.
    licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Junge Leiden, in Lieder, no. 6
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 122

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris