LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899)

Wit als watte, en tenegader
Language: Dutch (Nederlands) 
Wit als watte, en tenegader
groen, is 't bonte abeelgeblader.

Wakker, als een wekkerspel,
wikkelwakkel waait het snel.

Groen van boven is't en, zonder
minke, wit als melk, vanonder.

Onstandvastig volgt het, gans,
't onstandvastig windgedans.

Wisselbeurtig, op en neder,
slaat het, als een vogelveder.

Wit en grauw, zo, door de lucht,
'bont-abeelt' de duivenvlucht.

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), "Bonte abelen" [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 Jean-Paul Byloo (b. 1949), "Bonte abelen", 1999 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Vijf Gezelle-liederen, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Peter Noël Cabus (1923 - 2000), "Bonte abelen" [ voice and piano ], from Vier Gezelle-liederen [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Herberigs (1886 - 1974), "Bonte abeelen", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Raymond J. Schroyens (b. 1933), "Bonte abeelen" [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by J. H. Van Geyt , "Bonte abeelen" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Martijn Voorvelt , "Bonte abeelen", 1998 [ voice, clarinet, and piano ], from Drie Gezelleliederen [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 55

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris