Über allen Gipfeln
Ist Ruh',
In allen Wipfeln
Spürest du
Kaum einen Hauch;
Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.
Warte nur, balde
Ruhest du auch.

Note: in many older editions, the spelling of the capitalized word "über" becomes "Ueber", but this is often due to the printing process and not to rules of orthography, since the lower-case version is not "ueber", so we use "Über".

See also J.D. Falk's poem Unter allen Wipfeln ist Ruh.

Composition:

Set to music by Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "Über allen Gipfeln", op. 109 no. 4 [ 2 voices, 2 harmonicas ], from Fünf Duette für zwei Singstimmen und zwei Mundharmonikas in C, no. 4, confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

• by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Ein Gleiches", written 1780, first published 1815

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

• AFR Afrikaans [singable] (Robert Schall) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• CZE Czech (Čeština) (Karel Dostál-Lutinov) , "Počkej", first published 1917
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Wim Reedijk) , "Boven alle bergen", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Trekkers nachtlied II", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Over all the peaks it is peaceful", copyright ©
• ENG English [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "The wanderer's night-song", appears in The Poems of Goethe, first published 1853
• ENG English [singable] (Arthur Westbrook) , "Wanderer's night song"
• ENG English (Patrick John Corness) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Yölaulu", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Le chant de nuit du voyageur II", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Au sommet de tous les pics", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Sopra ogni vetta", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Canto notturno del viandante I", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• RUS Russian (Русский) (Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky) , no title
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , "Sobre todas las cumbres", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor] , Johann Winkler

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