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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887)

Wie neubegierig die Möwe
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Wie neubegierig die Möwe
Nach uns herüberblickt,
Weil ich an deine Lippen
So fest mein Ohr gedrückt!

Sie möchte gerne wissen,
Was deinem Mund entquillt,
Ob du mein Ohr mit Küssen
Oder mit Worten gefüllt?

Wenn ich nur selber wüßte,
Was mir in die Seele zischt!
Die Worte und die Küsse
Sind wunderbar vermischt.

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Neue Gedichte, in Verschiedene, in Seraphine, no. 5 [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 Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Wie neubegierig die Möwe", 2006, published 2006 [ tenor and piano ], from Seraphine, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Don Forsythe (1932 - 2015), "Wie neubegierig die Möwe", 2007 [ high voice and piano ], from Verschiedene : vol. 1, Seraphine-Hortense, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Erwin Ernst Wilhelm Meier (b. 1937), "Wie neubegierig die Möwe", published c1996 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from "Sonnennachtigallen sind es ..." : sechs Gedichte aus "Seraphine" von Heinrich Heine, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Emil Naumann (1827 - 1888), "Wie neubegierig die Möwe", op. 27 no. 5, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Strandlieder : Liederzyklus, no. 5, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur.
    • Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]

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


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-02-07
Line count: 12
Word count: 54

How enviously the sea‑mew
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
How enviously the sea-mew
   Looks after us, my dear;
Because upon thy lips then
   So close I pressed mine ear.

He fain would know what issued,
   Most curious of birds!
If thou mine ear fulfillest
   With kisses or with words.

What though my spirit hisses?
   I, too, am sore perplexed!
Thy words, dear, and thy kisses
   Are strangely intermixed.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887), appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Neue Gedichte, in Verschiedene, in Seraphine, no. 5
    • Go to the text page.

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

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-05-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 59

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