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Mit deinen blauen Augen Siehst du mich [lieblich]1 an, Da ward mir so träumend zu Sinne, Daß ich nicht sprechen kann. An deinen blauen Augen Gedenk' ich allerwärts: -- Ein Meer von blauen Gedanken Ergießt sich über mein Herz.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with: Heinrich Heine’s sämtliche Werke in vier Bänden, herausgegeben von Otto F. Lachmann, Erster Band, Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun, [1887], page 245.
1 Würz: "freundlich"Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 18, first published 1830 [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 Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", initials "R. H." [sung text not yet checked]
- by (George Efraim) Fritz Arlberg (1830 - 1896), "Traumen", published 18-?, from Tre sånger, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 1925-9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Varvara Vasilyevna Baikova (b. c1845), "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Conrad Johan Bartholdy (1853 - 1904), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 10 (Vier Lieder) no. 1, also set in Danish [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Biehl (1835 - 1899), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 79 (Vier Lieder für vierstimmigen Männerchor) no. 4, published 1880 [ four-part men's chorus ], Hamburg, Hentze [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Brüggemann , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 1 (Drei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerard Bunk (1888 - 1958), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 13 (Zehn Lieder nach Texten von Heinrich Heine) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Dakon , "Liebeszauber", published 1877 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 5, Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Berthold Damcke (1812 - 1875), "Die blauen Augen", op. 9 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 5, published 1838 [ voice and piano ], Bonn, Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1977 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 1930 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Heinrich Döring (1834 - 1916), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 15 no. 4, published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Dichtungen von Heinrich Heine, für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 4, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aleksey Konstantinovich Dreier (b. 1857), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 1847 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Ebert (1834 - 1908), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 14 (Drei Lieder von H. Heine) no. 1 [ high voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerrit Jan van Eijken (1832 - 1879), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 7 (Drei Gedichte von Heine) no. 1, published 1976 [ soprano or high tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst II, Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (1818 - 1893), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", from Lieder, Heft 1, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald M. Ginsburg (b. 1933), "Blauen Augen", published c2003, from Aus Schmerzen zu Lieder, no. 22 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 2015 [ counter-tenor, violin, cello, theorbo ], from 2 Love Songs, no. 1, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolf Gritzner , "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Harthan (1855 - 1936), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 33 (Vier Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1892 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, W. Hansen [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Hartmann (1836 - 1910), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 20 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1880 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Moritz Heinrich Hauser (1826 - 1857), "Deine blauen Augen", op. 3 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Hellmesberger, jun. (1855 - 1907), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Robitschek [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henrik Hennings (1848 - 1923), "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [ voice and piano ], from [Sechs] Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 2, Kjöbenhavn: Oscar Risom [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Herbeck (1831 - 1877), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 1858 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Die blauen Augen", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1865 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Adolf Hoffmann (1879 - 1963), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 3 (Lieder) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Hol (1825 - 1904), "Deine blauen Augen", op. 66 (Sechs Gedichte von H. Heine) no. 1, published 1873 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Höpfner , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 22 (Drei Lieder für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1881 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Schleusingen, Glaser [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Gustav Jansen (1831 - 1910), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 4 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fritz Jürgens (1888 - 1915), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1911-6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Filippovich Khristianovich (1828 - 1890), "Die blauen Augen", op. 9 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1858 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner  [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arno Kleffel (1840 - 1913), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 20 (Zwölf Lieder), Heft 2 no. 7, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810 - 1882), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 103 (Drei Lieder: Gedichte von Heine) no. 3, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by P. G. Kulikowskii , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 19 (Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rafael Laethén (1845 - 1898?), "Deine blauen Augen" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Deine blauen Augen", 1838, published 2009 [ voice and piano ], Kassel: Furore Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1867 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 5, Weimar, Kühn [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Lazarus (1861 - 1920), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 6 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1889 [ medium voice and piano ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Lehmann-Osten (1865 - ?), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Wilhelm Mayer (1831 - 1898), as W. A. Rémy, "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 4 (Vier Gesänge für 1 Alt-Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1874 [ alto and piano ], Wien, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hilda Middleton , "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Naumann (1827 - 1888), "Blaue Augen", op. 31 no. 2, published 1878 [ voice and piano ], from Nachklänge. Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hendrik Christian van Oort (b. 1873), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder), Heft 1 no. 1, published 190-? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mario van Overeem (1872 - 1946), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", from Neuer Frühling: 44 Lieder, no. 18 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Adolf Papendiek (1839 - 1908), "Ein Albumblatt", from Vier Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Napoleon Parker (1852 - 1944), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1891, from Twelve Songs (solos) by Heine, no. 5, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Ritter , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 4 (Zwölf Lieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Horace Rumbold , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 6 (Zwei Lieder von Heine) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Herm. Sachs , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1918, from Drei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (1837 - 1917), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", from Album, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Caesar Schmidt (1818 - 1906), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 3 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 59 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. Spindler , "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 4 (Six Songs of Heine) no. 2 (1874), published 1876 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Startzov , "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Steenberg (1830 - 1911), "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 56 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4 (1906), published 1908 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Tausch (1827 - 1895), "Blaue Augen", op. 15 (Drei Lieder für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1877 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Düsseldorf, Bayrhoffer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodor Twietmeyer , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", op. 8 (Acht Lieder) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Dmitry Andreyevich Usatov (1847 - 1913), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803 - 1883), "Ein Meer von blauen Gedanken", op. 46 (Sieben Gedichte aus dem 'Neuen Frühling' von Heinrich Heine) no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willy Viol (b. 1848), "Lied", op. 9 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Weigl (1881 - 1949), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 1906, from 10 Lieder von Heinrich Heine, no. 3, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Platonovich Weimarn (b. 1857), "Mit deinen blauen Augen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Würz (1885 - 1965), "Mit deinen blauen Augen", 1919, published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder, no. 6, München, Otto Halbreiter [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johannes Zíegler , "Mit deinen blauen Augen", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 3, Stralsund, Lindner Sohn [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Nikolay Vasil'yevich Berg (1824 - 1884) ; composed by César Antonovich Cui, Aleksey Konstantinovich Dreier, Konstantin Nikolayevich Startsev, Dmitry Andreyevich Usatov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Amb els teus ulls blaus", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Lawrence Snyder) (Rebecca Plack) , "With your blue eyes", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Avec tes yeux bleus", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Coi tuoi occhi azzurri", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Martin Zubiria) , "Con tus ojos zarcos", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Lawrence Snyder , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 38
With your blue eyes You look at me lovingly, Then my senses grow so dreamy That I cannot speak. Of your blue eyes I am reminded everywhere: A sea of blue thoughts Pours forth over my heart.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Lawrence Snyder and Rebecca Plack, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 18, first published 1830
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 37