Bleib bei uns! Wir haben den [Tanzplan]1 im Tal 
bedeckt mit [Mondesglanze]2, 
Johanneswürmchen erleuchten den Saal, 
die Heimchen spielen zum Tanze. 

Die Freude, das schöne [leichtgläubige]3 Kind, 
[es]4 wiegt sich in Abendwinden: 
Wo Silber [auf Zweigen und Büschen rinnt,
da wirst]5 du die Schönste finden.

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¹ Marx: "Tanzplatz"
² Stöhr: "Mondenglanze"
³ Marx, Wolff: "leichtgläub'ge"
⁴ Wolff: "sie"
⁵ Marx: "über die Zweige rinnt,/ sollst"

Text Authorship:

• by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Elfe", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe [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 Eugen (Francis Charles) d'Albert (1864 - 1932), "Elfe ", op. 3 (Zehn Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 9, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Stephan Baekers , "Elfe", 1979, from Fünf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Elfe", A. 21 (c1905-11), published 1941 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gustav Hasse (1834 - 1889), "Bleib' bei uns, wir haben den Tanzplan im Thal ", op. 21 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte ) no. 3, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alexis Holländer (1840 - 1924), "Elfe ", op. 29 no. 5, published 1883 [ soprano and piano ], from Frühling und Liebe. Sechs Lieder für Sopran mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Berlin, Schlesinger  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Elfe", op. 75 (45 Lieder für dreistimmigen Chor a capella) no. 38 (1924) [ three-part chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by (Karl) Emil Kauffmann (1836 - 1909), "Elfe", op. 3 (Vier Lieder) no. 4, published 1865 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Stuttgart, Zumsteeg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Meta ter Kuile-Troxler (1895 - 1940), "Elfe", op. 10b (4 Canti) no. 1, published <<1928 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Erwin Löwenfeld (1882 - 1949), as Erwin Lendvai, "Elfe", op. 2a no. 3 [ medium voice and piano ], from Romantisches Liederbuch I. Folge, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Die Elfe", 1909, published 1910 [ female voice and piano ], in Lieder und Gesänge, I. Folge, Nr.6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Karl Rausch (1880 - 1951), "Elfe " [ voice and piano ], from Elf Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hugo Reichenberger (1873 - 1938), "Elfe", op. 2 (5 Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbegleitung) no. 3, published 1897 [ voice and piano ], München : Jos. Aibl Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Elfe", op. 32 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2 (1852) [ duet for 2 sopranos with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Elfe", op. 100 (Zehn Gesänge) no. 10 (1868) [ vocal trio for female voices with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (1812 - 1877), "Elfe", op. 27 (7 Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1849 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Richard Stöhr (1874 - 1967), "Elfe", op. 14 (Sieben Lieder) no. 7, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Wien (Vienna), Robitschek [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (1861 - 1907), "Elfen", op. 31 no. 3 (1904) [ vocal trio for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano with piano ], from Drei Lieder für drei Frauenstimmen solo nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 3, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Bruno Walter (1876 - 1962), "Die Elfe", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder von Josef von Eichendorff, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Elfe", op. 25 (8 Frauenchöre a capella) no. 2 (1906), published 1933 [ three- or four-part women's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Julius Weismann (1879 - 1950), "Elfe", op. 43 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 (1909/10), published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Tischer & Jagenberg [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Erich J. Wolff (1874 - 1913), "Elfe", op. 14 (Vier Gedichte von Eichendorff) no. 3, published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Franz Wüllner (1832 - 1902), "Elfe ", op. 31 (Sechs Lieder für dreistimmigen Frauenchor ohne Begleitung) no. 6, published 1874 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher (1881 - 1948), "Elfe", op. 60 no. 6, published 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Eichendorff-Zyklus, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Stay with us! We have covered a clearing in the dell", copyright ©
• ENG English [singable] (John Bernhoff) , "The elves"
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Elfe", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 45

Stay with us! our playmates await but our call
to join our moonlight prancing,
ten thousand glowworms illumine the hall,
the crickets play to our dancing.

There pleasure, our princess, lies in her bower
'mid blossoms with odours teeming:
the moonbeams o'er silver each op'ning flower,
come, youth, where our Queen lies dreaming!