LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • 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

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

An die Waldvögel
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Konnt mich auch sonst mit schwingen
Übers grüne Revier,
Hatt ein Herze zum Singen
Und Flügel wie ihr.

Flog über die Felder,
Da blüht es wie Schnee,
Und herauf durch die Wälder
Spiegelt die See.

Ein Schiff sah ich gehen
Fort über das Meer,
Meinen Liebsten drin stehen, -
Dacht meiner nicht mehr.

Und die Segel verzogen,
Und es dämmert das Feld,
Und ich hab mich verflogen
In der weiten, weiten Welt.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Grimm 

View text with all available footnotes
First published 1839.

Text Authorship:

  • by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "An die Waldvögel", appears in Gedichte, in 2. Sängerleben [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 Wilhelm Freudenberg (1838 - 1928), "An die Waldvögel", op. 26 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Wiesbaden, Wolff [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julius Otto Grimm (1827 - 1903), "An die Waldvögel", op. 11 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1866 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Paul Kont (1920 - 2000), "An die Waldvögel ", 1977 [ medium voice or low voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-06-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 72

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