by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Translation by Ferdinand Gross (1849 - 1900)
Eldorado
Language: English
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old - This knight so bold - And o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him, at length, He met a pilgrim shadow - "Shadow," said he, "Where can it be - This land of Eldorado?" "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Text Authorship:
- by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eldorado" [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 Sherodd Albritton , "Eldorado", published 1953 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "Eldorado", published 1935 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874 - 1946), "Eldorado", published 1937 [sung text not yet checked]
- by R. O. Beachcroft , "Eldorado", published 1925 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "Eldorado" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin C. S. Boyle , "Eldorado ", op. 4 no. 6, published 2002, first performed 2003 [ baritone and piano ], from Lenoriana, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leopold Bruenner (1869 - 1963), "Eldorado", op. 1 no. 5, published 1915 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Isidore Cohen (1858 - 1935), as Isidore De Lara, "Eldorado", published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Davies , "Eldorado", published 1941 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wallace Earl De Pue (b. 1932), "Eldorado" [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Campbell Dorward (b. 1933), "Eldorado", published 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. M. C. Ezerman , "Eldorado", published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Truman R. Fisher (b. 1927), "Eldorado", published 1969 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Geldart, Reverend , "Eldorado", published 1884 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ulf A. Grahn , "Eldorado", published 1982, first performed 1983 [ baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elliott Griffis (1893 - 1967), "Eldorado", published 1937 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Habash , "Eldorado", published 1964 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nancy A. Haskin , "Eldorado", published 1937 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Derek Healey (b. 1936), "Eldorado", op. 123 no. 1 (2010) [ high voice and piano ], from Thy Distant Fire: an Edgar Allan Poe Songbook, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bruno Siegfried Huhn (1871 - 1950), "Eldorado", published 1914 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clarence Lucas (1866 - 1947), "Eldorado", op. 45 no. 5, published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946), "Eldorado", published 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by George W. Marston (1840 - 1901), "Eldorado", published 1896 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick C. Nicholls (1871 - ?), "Eldorado", published 1938 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred A. Oberndorfer , "Eldorado", op. 1 no. 3, published 1911 [sung text not yet checked]
- by F. Wilson Parish (1869 - ?), "Eldorado", published 1918 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellsworth Swan Phelps , "Eldorado", published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Addison Price , "Eldorado", published 1921 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daniel Protheroe (1866 - 1934), "Eldorado", published 1929 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alton Rinker , "Eldorado", published 1968, from American Poets' Suite [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Rowse , "Eldorado", published 1877 [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Popplewell Royle , "Eldorado", published 1889 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Rôze (1875 - 1920), "Eldorado", published 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Oswald Schaaf (1869 - 1939), "Eldorado", published 1900 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertram Shapleigh (1871 - 1940), "Eldorado", op. 41 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Sanford Skilton (1868 - 1941), "Eldorado", published 1894 [sung text not yet checked]
- by B. R. Solis , "Eldorado", published 1927 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1873 - 1928), "Eldorado", op. 16 (Four Poems by Edgar Allan Poe) no. 3, published 1917 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Stillman-Kelley (1857 - 1944), "Eldorado", op. 8 no. 1, published 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Augustus Sydenham (1847 - 1891), "Eldorado", published 1869 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Allen Roy Trubitt (b. 1931), "Eldorado", published 1980 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ursula , "Eldorado", published 1872 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Myra Kinney Van Höveln-Carpé , "Eldorado", op. 57b, published 1922 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Henry Walthew (1872 - 1951), "Eldorado", published 1896 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898) , "Eldorado", appears in Les Poèmes d'Edgar Poe, first published 1889 ; composed by Albert Huybrechts.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Hermann Schneider (1860 - 1930) ; composed by Bertram Shapleigh.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ferdinand Gross (1849 - 1900) , "Das Glück (nach Edgar Allen Poe)" ; composed by Gustav Erlanger.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 93
Mit hellem Sang
Language: German (Deutsch) after the English
Mit hellem Sang Die Tage lang, Zog durch die schattenreichen Auen, Durch Haideland, Im Sonnenbrand, Ein Ritter, um das Glück zu schauen. Betrübt und matt, Des Wanderns satt -- Sein Haar begann schon zu ergrauen -- Hatt' er nicht Weg, Hatt' er nicht Steg Gefunden, um das Glück zu schauen. Als er erschlafft, Gebeugt an Kraft, Huscht' ihm ein Schatten vor die Brauen. "O Schatten, sprich, Wohin muß ich Denn wandern, um das Glück zu schauen?" " ' Im Monde, bleich, Das Felsenreich, Das Thal, wo Schatten nur und Grauen, Durchziehe dann, Du Rittersmann -- So wirst am Ende du das Glück erschauen . . . ' "
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Neue Monatshefte für Dichtkunst und Kritik, dritter Band, Leipzig: Ernst Julius Günther, 1876. Page 506.
Text Authorship:
- by Ferdinand Gross (1849 - 1900), "Das Glück (nach Edgar Allen Poe)" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eldorado"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gustav Erlanger (1842 - 1908), "Das Glück", op. 40 (Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 8, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this page: Melanie Trumbull
This text was added to the website: 2018-04-01
Line count: 24
Word count: 105