Ich wollte bei dir [weilen]1
Und an deiner Seite ruh'n;
Du mußtest von mir eilen,
Du hattest viel zu tun.

Ich sagte, daß meine Seele
Dir gänzlich ergeben sei;
Du lachtest aus voller Kehle,
Und machtest 'nen Knicks dabei.

Du hast noch mehr gesteigert
Mir meinen Liebesverdruß,
Und hast mir sogar verweigert
Am Ende den Abschiedskuß.

Glaub' nicht, daß ich mich erschieße,
Wie schlimm auch die Sachen stehn!
Das alles, meine Süße,
Ist mir schon einmal geschehn.

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¹ Vesque von Püttlingen: "bleiben"; further changes may exist not noted.

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Ich wollte bei dir weilen", appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 55 [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 Frederick Brandeis (1835 - 1899), "Ich wollte bei dir weilen", published 1894 [ voice and piano ], from Cyclus of six songs by Heine, no. 4, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernesto Drangosch (1882 - 1925), "Ich wollte bei dir weilen", op. 4 no. 4 (1906) [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gerald M. Ginsburg (b. 1933), "Abschied", 2001, from Aus Schmerzen zu Lieder, no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Caspar René Hirschfeld (b. 1965), "Blinder Passagier", op. 52 (10 heimliche Liebeslieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905 - 1988), "Ich wollte bei dir weilen" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Th. Trendelenburg , "Ich wollte bei dir weilen", op. 2 (Sechs Lieder von H. Heine) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803 - 1883), "Ist mir schon einmal gescheh'n", op. 38 (Humoristica aus Heine's Gedichten) no. 5, from Die Heimkehr : 88 Gedichte aus H. Heine's Reisebildern, no. 55, note: set as J. Hoven [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Frederick Brandeis.
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• Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Bernardino Zendrini (1839 - 1879) ; composed by Vincenzo Billi.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksey Nikolayevich Pleshcheyev (1825 - 1893) , no title ; composed by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• 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

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

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