by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Eldorado
Language: English
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old - This knight so bold - And o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him, at length, He met a pilgrim shadow - "Shadow," said he, "Where can it be - This land of Eldorado?" "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
Text Authorship:
- by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eldorado" [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 Sherodd Albritton , "Eldorado", published 1953 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Creighton Allen (1900 - 1969), "Eldorado", published 1935 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874 - 1946), "Eldorado", published 1937 [sung text not yet checked]
- by R. O. Beachcroft , "Eldorado", published 1925 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "Eldorado" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin C. S. Boyle , "Eldorado ", op. 4 no. 6, published 2002, first performed 2003 [ baritone and piano ], from Lenoriana, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leopold Bruenner (1869 - 1963), "Eldorado", op. 1 no. 5, published 1915 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Isidore Cohen (1858 - 1935), as Isidore De Lara, "Eldorado", published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Davies , "Eldorado", published 1941 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wallace Earl De Pue (b. 1932), "Eldorado" [sung text not yet checked]
- by David Campbell Dorward (b. 1933), "Eldorado", published 1966 [sung text not yet checked]
- by E. M. C. Ezerman , "Eldorado", published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Truman R. Fisher (b. 1927), "Eldorado", published 1969 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Geldart, Reverend , "Eldorado", published 1884 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ulf A. Grahn , "Eldorado", published 1982, first performed 1983 [ baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elliott Griffis (1893 - 1967), "Eldorado", published 1937 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Habash , "Eldorado", published 1964 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nancy A. Haskin , "Eldorado", published 1937 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Derek Healey (b. 1936), "Eldorado", op. 123 no. 1 (2010) [ high voice and piano ], from Thy Distant Fire: an Edgar Allan Poe Songbook, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bruno Siegfried Huhn (1871 - 1950), "Eldorado", published 1914 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Clarence Lucas (1866 - 1947), "Eldorado", op. 45 no. 5, published 1904 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (James) Albert Mallinson (1870 - 1946), "Eldorado", published 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by George W. Marston (1840 - 1901), "Eldorado", published 1896 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick C. Nicholls (1871 - ?), "Eldorado", published 1938 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred A. Oberndorfer , "Eldorado", op. 1 no. 3, published 1911 [sung text not yet checked]
- by F. Wilson Parish (1869 - ?), "Eldorado", published 1918 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ellsworth Swan Phelps , "Eldorado", published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Addison Price , "Eldorado", published 1921 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daniel Protheroe (1866 - 1934), "Eldorado", published 1929 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alton Rinker , "Eldorado", published 1968, from American Poets' Suite [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Rowse , "Eldorado", published 1877 [sung text not yet checked]
- by T. Popplewell Royle , "Eldorado", published 1889 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Rôze (1875 - 1920), "Eldorado", published 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Oswald Schaaf (1869 - 1939), "Eldorado", published 1900 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bertram Shapleigh (1871 - 1940), "Eldorado", op. 41 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1901 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Sanford Skilton (1868 - 1941), "Eldorado", published 1894 [sung text not yet checked]
- by B. R. Solis , "Eldorado", published 1927 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1873 - 1928), "Eldorado", op. 16 (Four Poems by Edgar Allan Poe) no. 3, published 1917 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Stillman-Kelley (1857 - 1944), "Eldorado", op. 8 no. 1, published 1901 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Augustus Sydenham (1847 - 1891), "Eldorado", published 1869 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Allen Roy Trubitt (b. 1931), "Eldorado", published 1980 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ursula , "Eldorado", published 1872 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Myra Kinney Van Höveln-Carpé , "Eldorado", op. 57b, published 1922 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Henry Walthew (1872 - 1951), "Eldorado", published 1896 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898) , "Eldorado", appears in Les Poèmes d'Edgar Poe, first published 1889 ; composed by Albert Huybrechts.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Hermann Schneider (1860 - 1930) ; composed by Bertram Shapleigh.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ferdinand Gross (1849 - 1900) , "Das Glück (nach Edgar Allen Poe)" ; composed by Gustav Erlanger.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 93