LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,120)
  • Text Authors (19,527)
  • 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 Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914)

Wie ein krankes Kindlein
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Wie ein krankes Kindlein
Wieg' ich mein Herz.
Die weichsten Windlein
Machen ihm Schmerz.

Schlaflieder viele
Summt ich Tag und Nacht.
Kein Schmeicheln, keine Spiele
Haben's stille gemacht. 

Nun hab' ich am Ende 
Mit Lächeln eingesehn,
Daß keine Männerhände 
Sich auf's Wiegen verstehn. 

Erbarm' dich, erbarme 
Meine Liebste, du! 
Deine weichen Arme 
Wiegen's in Ruh.

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), no title [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 Robert Emmerich (1836 - 1891), "Wiegenlied", op. 37 (Zwölf Gesänge) no. 10, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Schuberth [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Hermann (1870 - 1931), "Wie ein krankes Kindlein wieg' ich mein Herz", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Kiesler [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Wiegenlied", op. 30 (Fünf Lieder für 1 hohe Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1882 [ high voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Oscar von Samson-Himmelstiern , "Wie ein krankes Kindlein wieg' ich mein Herz", op. 10 (Vier Lieder für 1 hohe Stimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1882 [ high voice and piano ], Hamburg, Rahter [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-07
Line count: 16
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