LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,026)
  • Text Authors (19,309)
  • 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 (1,112)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Joseph Mendelssohn (1817 - 1856)

Zieh' hinüber, weiße Taube
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Zieh' hinüber, weiße Taube,
Flieg' zu meinem Mädchen hin,
Sage ihr, daß ich zum Raube,
Ach! dem Gram, den Sehnsucht bin!   
Eile, eile, eile,
Raste nie,
Grüße sie!  

Zieht hinüber, Abendlüfte,
Kühlet ihrer Wangen Glut, 
Bringt zurück der Rose Düfte,
Die an ihrem Busen ruht. 
Eilet, eilet, eilet,
Rastet nie,
Grüßet sie!

Zieh' hinüber, Mondesleuchten,
Küßen schließ' das Auge ihr.   
Sollten Thränen es befeuchten?  -- 
Mondstrahl, bringe Kunde mir! 
Eile, eile, eile,
Raste nie,
Grüße sie!

About the headline (FAQ)

View text with all available footnotes

Confirmed with Wilde Blumen. Dichtungen von Joseph Mendelssohn, Leipzig: Ph. Reclam jun., 1843, pages 23 - 24. Appears in Wanderbilder; and confirmed with Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Literatur, Theater und Mode, erstes Quartal, Wien: Friedrich Witthauer. Issue no. 80, Dienstag, den 19. Mai 1840, page 635. In this edition, the poem begins "Hinüber, weiße Taube"


Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Mendelssohn (1817 - 1856), "Grüße", appears in Wilde Blumen, in Wanderbilder [author's text checked 2 times 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 Franz Wilhelm Abt (1819 - 1885), "Grüße", op. 40 (Sechs Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1852 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Stuttgart, Göpel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Böie (1822 - 1900), "Zieh hinüber weisse Taube", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1843 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
  • by August Lindner (1820 - 1878), "Grüße", op. 11 (Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor mit Pianoforte) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Nagel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Johann) Albert Gottlieb Methfessel (1785 - 1869), "Grüße" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with Das singende Deutschland, seibente Auflage, vierter Band, Leipzig: Philipp Reclam jun., 1854. no. 274, pages 122 - 125 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hermann Stöckert (1852 - 1933), "Grüsse", published 1874 [ SATB chorus ], from Vier Lieder für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass, no. 2, Berlin, Sulzbach [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2018-07-01
Line count: 21
Word count: 75

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