Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön,
Das hab' ich jüngst im Traum gesehn,
Es ist so mild und engelgleich,
Und doch so bleich, so [schmerzenbleich]1.

Und nur die Lippen, die sind rot;
Bald aber küßt sie bleich der Tod.
Erlöschen wird das Himmelslicht,
Das aus den frommen Augen bricht.

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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 114.

¹ Schumann: "schmerzenreich" (full of pain)

Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 5, from Winterzyklus, no. 4 [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 John Clement Adams (flourished 1973-2002), "Dein Angesicht", published c1985 [ high voice and piano ], from Heine songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Carl Björset , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Zwei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Decker , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 22 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Brauer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eugen Degele (1834 - 1886), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 12 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön", op. 1 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 5 (1846), published 1846 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Edward Baxter Felton , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", published 1900, from Three Songs, no. 1, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann R. Fichten , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gutmann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", published c2004-5 [ low voice and piano ], from Eine Dichtererzählung - Winterzyklus, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by A. Grote , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max J. L. Gus , "Dein Angesicht", op. 15 (Lieder), Heft 4 no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by R. H. , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustav Hasse (1834 - 1889), "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön", op. 27 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Hermann (1869 - 1912), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 1 (Zwölf kleine Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 10, published 1893 [ medium voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arthur Hervey (1855 - 1922), "Dein Angesicht", published 1884, from Herzens Stimmen, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Dein Angesicht ", 1994-5, published c1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung I, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by B. Kreutzer , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 9 (Vier Lieder von Heine) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry J. Lautz , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Heine-Lieder (Heine-Songs)) no. 5, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by W. J. Otto Lessmann (1844 - 1918), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 1 (Vier Gedichte für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Joseph Messer (1811 - 1860), "Liebchens Angesicht", from Zwei Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by William Harold Neidlinger (1863 - 1924), "Dein Angesicht", published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Pusztay , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Ritter , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 4 (Zwölf Lieder) no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Franz Rudolph , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Innsbruck, Gross [sung text not yet checked]
• by Horace Rumbold , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 6 (Zwei Lieder von Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Apolinary Scheluta (1884 - 1966), "Dein Angesicht", op. 12 (Buch der Lieder : von Heinrich Heine) no. 8, published 1909? [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Dein Angesicht", op. 127 no. 2 (1840), published 1854, from [Fünf] Lieder und Gesänge von Kerner, Heine, Strachwitz, Shakespeare, no. 2, Dresden, Paul [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jul. von Scriba , "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 5 (Drei Lieder) no. 2 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Otto Tiehsen (1817 - 1849), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 2 (Fünf Gesänge von Heine und Müller) no. 1, published 1839 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 38 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, published 1892, also set in Dutch (Nederlands) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Berthold Tours (1838 - 1897), "Dein Angesicht, so lieb und schön", op. 3 (Sechs Gedichte : von H. Heine und F. Dingelstedt) no. 2, published 18--? [sung text not yet checked]
• by Theodor Twietmeyer , "Dein Angesicht", op. 8 (Acht Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Tyberg (1893 - 1944), "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön" [ voice and piano ], from Song Cycle from Heinrich Heine'€™s Lyrischen Intermezzo, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
• by János Végh (1845 - 1918), as Johann Végh, "Dein Angesicht", 1864, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gedichte, Heft 1, no. 2, Pest: Táborszky & Parsch; Wien: F. Wessely; Leipzig: Fr. Hofmeister, Nr. 72 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Johan Weegenhuise (b. 1910), "Im Traumbild", 1940, published c1984 [ medium voice and piano ], from 2 Heine-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Oscar Strasnoy (b. 1970), "Es stehen unbeweglich" [ duet for soprano and tenor with piano ], from Heine, no. 4
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Herbert Baines.
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• Also set in English, a translation by A. Davenport ; composed by Edward Baxter Felton.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Jouw aangezicht", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Your face so lovable and fair", copyright ©
• ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
• FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 5, first published 1827
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• POL Polish (Polski) (Aleksander Kraushar) , no title, appears in Pieśni Heinego, in Intermezzo, no. 5, first published 1880
• RUS Russian (Русский) (Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov) , no title, appears in Роман в пяти стихотворениях = Roman v pjati stikhotvorenijakh (A novel in five poems), no. 2 [an adaptation]

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 49

Thy face, so lovely and serene,  
In vision I have lately seen; 
So like an angel's 'tis, and meek, 
Though bitter grief has blanch'd thy cheek. 
 
Thy lips alone, they still are red; 
Death soon will kiss them pale and dead; 
The heavenly light will soon be o'er, 
That from thine eyes is wont to pour.