by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Im Walde wand'l ich und weine Matches original text
        Language: German (Deutsch) 
        Our translations:  FRE
        
        
        
        Im Walde wandl' ich und weine, die Drossel sitzt in der Höh; sie springt und singt gar feine: Warum ist dir so weh? "Die Schwalben, deine Schwestern, die könnens dir sagen, mein Kind; sie wohnten in klugen Nestern, wo Liebchens Fenster sind."
Composition:
- Set to music  by Mary Wurm (1860 - 1938), "Im Walde wand'l ich und weine", published c1890 [ voice and piano ], from  4 Liebeslieder, no. 4, London : Pitt & Hatzfeld
 
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 4
 
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, p. 88, first published 1887
 - FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (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: 8
Word count: 42