The sea hath its pearls

Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

Das Meer hat seine Perlen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): ENG FRE

Das Meer hat seine Perlen,
Der Himmel hat seine Sterne,
Aber mein Herz, mein Herz,
Mein Herz hat seine Liebe.

Groß ist das Meer und der Himmel,
Doch größer ist mein Herz,
Und schöner als Perlen und Sterne
Leuchtet und strahlt meine Liebe.

Du kleines, junges Mädchen,
Komm an mein großes Herz;
Mein Herz und das Meer und der Himmel
Vergehn vor lauter Liebe.

R. Franz sets stanzas 1-2

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Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Nordsee, in Erster Zyklus, in 7. Nachts in der Kajüte, no. 1 [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 Albert Felix, Graf Amadei (1851 - 1894), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 12 (Fünf Gesänge für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, SenffLeipzig, Senff [sung text not yet checked]
by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 4 (Syv Sange af J. Goethe, H. Heine, E. Geibel) no. 4 (1873), published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Kjöbenhavn: Wilhelm Hansens Forlag og Eiendom, also set in Danish (Dansk) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Konstantin Julius Becker (1811 - 1859), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder von H. Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Boott (1813 - 1904), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1857 [sung text not yet checked]
by Th. Bredsdorff , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Edward Bruce , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Cobelli , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 10 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Nicola Dmitrieff , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinz Dorguth , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 88 [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Erlanger (1842 - 1908), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 38 (Vier Lieder für Alt mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1879 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by Otto Feller (1870 - c1932), "Nachts in der Kajüte", published 190-?, from Frühlingswogen: Ein Zyklus von Liedern und Szenen, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Auf dem Meere", op. 36 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1862, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Leuckart [sung text checked 1 time]
by Tom Harrison Frewin , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Geisler (1856 - 1919), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 1 no. 11, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung. 1. Folge. Zwölf Dichtungen von Heine und Rückert, no. 11, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
by Gerald M. Ginsburg (b. 1933), "Minnelied", 2001, published c2003, from Aus Schmerzen zu Lieder, no. 20 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ferdinand Gumbert (1818 - 1896), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 10 (Fünf Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor) no. 1, published 1845 [ soprano or tenor and piano or guitar ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hassenstein (1843 - 1927), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 19 (Sechs Lieder von Heine, für Mezzo-Sopran (oder Bariton) mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1879 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], Eberswalde, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
by Willem de Iongh (1857 - 1931), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
by George F. Johnson , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
by Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner (1823 - 1903), "Auf dem Meere", op. 81 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1887 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Bruno Oscar Klein (1858 - 1911), "Auf dem Meere", op. 36 (Sechs Lieder und Gesänge für gemischten Chor) no. 3, published 1890 [ mixed chorus ], Leipzig, A.P. Schmidt [sung text not yet checked]
by (Christian) Louis Heinrich Köhler (1820 - 1886), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 8 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 34 (Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Samuel de Lange (1840 - 1911), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 6 no. 1, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Nachts in der Kajüte : ein Liedercyclus von Heinrich, no. 1, Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
by Amandus Leopold Leidgebel (b. 1816), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 6 (Fünf Lieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Leopold Lenz (1803 - 1862), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 25 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Leopold Lenz (1803 - 1862), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 33 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 [ baritone or low soprano, piano, violoncello or horn ] [sung text not yet checked]
by George Alexander MacFarren (1813 - 1887), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 51 (Drei Lieder aus H. Heines Reisebildern) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Matthäus Roemer (b. 1871), "Nachts in der Kajüte", from Zehn Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Samson , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. I. Reihe, Heft V, no. 3, Dresden, Arnold [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Schneider , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1885 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Wien, Ludewig [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Nachts in der Kajüte", 1860 [ voice and orchestra ], Together with the next poem of Heine [sung text not yet checked]
by A. M. Somov , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Celia C. Stevens , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published c1919 [sung text not yet checked]
by Otto Tiehsen (1817 - 1849), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 5, published 1846 [ voice, piano, and violoncello or horn ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Anton Urspruch (1850 - 1907), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Auf dem Meere", published 1880; 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Album of German Songs (later published as Sixteen German Songs), no. 10, London, Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.; also reprinted by Recital Publications (Texas) in 1995 , also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
by Friedrich von Wickede (1834 - 1904), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für Tenor) no. 1, published 1871 [ tenor and piano ], Berlin, Bote und Bock [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl.
Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , "The sea hath its pearls", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1846 ; composed by Bruce Adolphe, Robert Earle Anderson, Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, Michael William Balfe, W. Biermann, John W. Bischoff, Henry Bond, William Borrow, Johannes Braunschiedl, Henry Burck, Cecil Burleigh, Carl Reinhold Busch, Luigi Caracciolo, Frederick Scotson Clark, George Howard Clutsam, T. H. Cooperson, David John Coutts, Ellen Cowdell, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, John David Davis, Herbert C. Deavin, H. A. Donald, Robert S. Flagler, James Cliffe Forrester, Tom Harrison Frewin, Rudolph Ganz, Robert Goldbeck, Charles Gounod, Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, Ivor Gurney, Percy Harmon, Cuthbert Harris, Bertram C. Henry, Joseph Holbrooke, Helen Hopekirk, Oliver A. King, Victor Kolar, F. Lichner, Samuel Liddle, Clarence Lucas, Walter Cecil Macfarren, William Mairhofer, Jessie Miller, Osma C. Morrill, Cecile Neuhaus, Joseph Edward Newell, George Stephenson Oldham, J. Herbert Olding, John A. O'Shea, James Cutler Dunn Parker, C. Pavesi, Elizabeth Philp, Ciro Ercole Pinsuti, Il Cavaliere, William Prendergast, Olga V. Radecke, Alfred Redhead, Le Roy Mitchell Rile, Herbert Sanders, Frank E. Sawyer, Vernon Spencer, Thomas Edward Spinney, Julius Sprenger, Svengali, Berthold Tours, Charles John Vincent, Jr., Ida Walter, Samuel Prowse Warren, Maude Valérie White, Ernest Whyte, J. J. Wickham, Benjamin E. Woolf, Vernon O. Wright.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by (Paul) Jules Barbier (1825 - 1901) ; composed by Charles Gounod.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by Léon-Émile Petitdidier (1839 - 1927) ; composed by Sylvio Lazzari, né Josef Fortunat Silvester Lazzari.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by Abel Nathan ; composed by Abel Nathan.
Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Bernardino Zendrini (1839 - 1879) ; composed by Leopoldo Govenini.

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

ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "By the sea", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "In the cabin at night", appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 64

The sea hath its pearls

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

The sea hath its pearls,
The heaven hath its stars;
But my heart, my heart,
My heart has its love.

Great are the sea and the heaven;
Yet greater is my heart,
And fairer than pearls and stars
Flashes and beams my love.

Thou little, youthful maiden,
Come unto my great heart;
My heart, and the sea and the heaven
Are melting away [with]¹ love!

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Authorship:

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), "The sea hath its pearls", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1846 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Nordsee, in Erster Zyklus, in 7. Nachts in der Kajüte, no. 1

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955), "The sea hath its pearls", published 2011 [ high voice and piano ], from Pearls, tears of the sea, no. 2, Maryland Heights, MO : Keiser Classical ; Milwaukee, WI [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Earle Anderson , "The sea hath its pearls", published 194-? [sung text not yet checked]
by Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874 - 1946), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1903, from Six Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1862 [sung text not yet checked]
by W. Biermann (flourished 1875), "The sea hath its pearls", published c1875 [sung text not yet checked]
by John W. Bischoff (1850 - 1909), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1888 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Bond , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1879 [sung text not yet checked]
by William Borrow , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1858 [sung text not yet checked]
by Johannes Braunschiedl , "The sea hath its pearls", published c1883 [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Burck (1860? - 1938), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1908 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Cecil Burleigh (1885 - 1980), "The sea hath its pearls", op. 32 no. 2, published 1917 [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862 - 1943), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1901 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Luigi Caracciolo (1847 - 1887), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1885 [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Scotson Clark , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1861 [sung text not yet checked]
by George Howard Clutsam (1866 - 1951), "The sea hath its pearls", op. 1 (Six Songs) no. 6, published 1891 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by T. H. Cooperson , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1925 [sung text not yet checked]
by David John Coutts (1863 - 1922), "The sea hath its pearls", published 192-?, from Album of Songs. No. 3, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ellen Cowdell , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1905 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir (1852 - 1935), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1892 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Longfellow's Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by John David Davis (1867 - 1942), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1910 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Herbert C. Deavin , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1909 [sung text not yet checked]
by H. A. Donald , "The sea hath its pearls", published c1923 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert S. Flagler (1890 - 1935), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1919 [sung text not yet checked]
by James Cliffe Forrester (1860 - 1941), "The sea hath its pearls" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Tom Harrison Frewin , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolph Ganz (1877 - 1972), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1915 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Goldbeck (1839 - 1908), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1866 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "The sea hath its pearls", CG 458 (1871), published 1871 [ voice, violin obbligato, and piano or harmonium ], London, Duff & Stewart (English only), also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
by Mrs. M. H. Gulesian , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1927 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The sea hath its pearls", 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Percy Harmon , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1899 [sung text not yet checked]
by Cuthbert Harris (1870 - 1932), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1891, from Seven Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Bertram C. Henry (b. 1864), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1889 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "The sea hath its pearls", op. 15 (Five Songs) no. 2 (1906), published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Helen Hopekirk (1856 - 1945), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1894, from Five Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Oliver A. King (1855 - 1923), "The sea hath its pearls", op. 59 (Six Songs) no. ?, published 1890 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Victor Kolar (1888 - 1957), "The sea hath its pearls", op. 18 (Three Songs) no. 1, published 1912 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by F. Lichner , "The sea hath its pearls" [sung text not yet checked]
by Samuel Liddle (1864? - 1951), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1907 [ duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Four Duets, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Clarence Lucas (1866 - 1947), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1899, from Two Songs, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Walter Cecil Macfarren (1826 - 1905), "The sea hath its pearls" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by William Mairhofer , "The sea hath its pearls", published c1856 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jessie Miller , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1881 [sung text not yet checked]
by Osma C. Morrill , "My heart and the sea and the heaven", published c1892 [sung text not yet checked]
by Osma C. Morrill , "My heart and the sea and the heaven", published 1892 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Cecile Neuhaus , "The sea hath its pearls", 1935?, published c1953 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Edward Newell , "The sea hath its pearls" [ duet with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by George Stephenson Oldham , "The sea hath its pearls", published c1920 [sung text not yet checked]
by J. Herbert Olding , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1907, from Two Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by John A. O'Shea (b. 1864), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1890 [sung text not yet checked]
by John A. O'Shea (b. 1864), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1890 [sung text not yet checked]
by James Cutler Dunn Parker (1828 - 1916), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1875 [ partsong: satb chorus and piano ], from 7 Part Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by C. Pavesi , "The sea hath its pearls", from Twelve English Songs, Heft 1, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Elizabeth Philp (1827 - 1885), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1867 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ciro Ercole Pinsuti, Il Cavaliere (1829 - 1888), "The sea hath its pearls", published >>1869 [sung text not yet checked]
by William Prendergast (flourished 1896-1933), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1897 [sung text not yet checked]
by Olga V. Radecke , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1882 [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred Redhead , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1899 [sung text not yet checked]
by Le Roy Mitchell Rile , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1917 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Herbert Sanders , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1913 [ women's chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Frank E. Sawyer , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1894, from Six New Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Vernon Spencer (1875 - 1949), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1913 [sung text not yet checked]
by Thomas Edward Spinney , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1897 [sung text not yet checked]
by Julius Sprenger , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1866 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Svengali , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1897 [sung text not yet checked]
by Berthold Tours (1838 - 1897), "The sea hath its pearls", published >>1864 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles John Vincent, Jr. (1852 - 1934), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1881 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ida Walter , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1882 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Samuel Prowse Warren (1841 - 1915), "The sea hath its pearls", published c1865 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "The sea hath its pearls", published 1880; 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Album of German Songs (later published as Sixteen German Songs), no. 10, London, Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.; also reprinted by Recital Publications (Texas) in 1995 , also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernest Whyte (1858 - 1922), "The sea hath its pearls", op. 24 (Songs) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by J. J. Wickham , "The sea hath its pearls" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Benjamin E. Woolf (1836 - 1901), "The sea hath its pearls" [ vocal quartet of male voices ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Vernon O. Wright , "The sea hath its pearls", published 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Joanna Lonergan

This text was added to the website: 2005-07-04
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Word count: 65