by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887)
Das Meer hat seine Perlen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Das Meer hat seine Perlen, Der Himmel hat seine Sterne, Aber mein Herz, mein Herz, Mein Herz hat seine Liebe. Groß ist das Meer und der Himmel, Doch größer ist mein Herz, Und schöner als Perlen und Sterne Leuchtet und strahlt meine Liebe. Du kleines, junges Mädchen, Komm an mein großes Herz; Mein Herz und das Meer und der Himmel Vergehn vor lauter Liebe.
R. Franz sets stanzas 1-2
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Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Nordsee, in Erster Zyklus, in 7. Nachts in der Kajüte, no. 1 [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 Albert Felix, Graf Amadei (1851 - 1894), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 12 (Fünf Gesänge für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 5, published 1886 [ medium voice and piano ], Leipzig, SenffLeipzig, Senff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl (1847 - 1907), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 4 (Syv Sange af J. Goethe, H. Heine, E. Geibel) no. 4 (1873), published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Kjöbenhavn: Wilhelm Hansens Forlag og Eiendom, also set in Danish (Dansk) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Konstantin Julius Becker (1811 - 1859), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder von H. Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Boott (1813 - 1904), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1857 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Th. Bredsdorff , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Bruce , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Cobelli , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 10 (Lieder) no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nicola Dmitrieff , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinz Dorguth , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 88 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Erlanger (1842 - 1908), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 38 (Vier Lieder für Alt mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1879 [ alto and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Feller (1870 - c1932), "Nachts in der Kajüte", published 190-?, from Frühlingswogen: Ein Zyklus von Liedern und Szenen, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Auf dem Meere", op. 36 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1862, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], Breslau, Leuckart [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Tom Harrison Frewin , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1889 [ voice and piano ], also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Geisler (1856 - 1919), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 1 no. 11, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], from Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung. 1. Folge. Zwölf Dichtungen von Heine und Rückert, no. 11, Berlin, Bote & Bock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gerald M. Ginsburg (b. 1933), "Minnelied", 2001, published c2003, from Aus Schmerzen zu Lieder, no. 20 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ferdinand Gumbert (1818 - 1896), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 10 (Fünf Lieder für Sopran oder Tenor) no. 1, published 1845 [ soprano or tenor and piano or guitar ], Berlin, Schlesinger [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hassenstein (1843 - 1927), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 19 (Sechs Lieder von Heine, für Mezzo-Sopran (oder Bariton) mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1879 [ mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano ], Eberswalde, Schreiber [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willem de Iongh (1857 - 1931), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
- by George F. Johnson , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1907 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Theodor Fürchtegott Kirchner (1823 - 1903), "Auf dem Meere", op. 81 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5, published 1887 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bruno Oscar Klein (1858 - 1911), "Auf dem Meere", op. 36 (Sechs Lieder und Gesänge für gemischten Chor) no. 3, published 1890 [ mixed chorus ], Leipzig, A.P. Schmidt [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Christian) Louis Heinrich Köhler (1820 - 1886), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 8 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Paul Lachner (1803 - 1890), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 34 (Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine) no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Samuel de Lange (1840 - 1911), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 6 no. 1, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], from Nachts in der Kajüte : ein Liedercyclus von Heinrich, no. 1, Leipzig, Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amandus Leopold Leidgebel (b. 1816), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 6 (Fünf Lieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leopold Lenz (1803 - 1862), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 25 no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leopold Lenz (1803 - 1862), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 33 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 [ baritone or low soprano, piano, violoncello or horn ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Alexander MacFarren (1813 - 1887), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 51 (Drei Lieder aus H. Heines Reisebildern) no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Matthäus Roemer (b. 1871), "Nachts in der Kajüte", from Zehn Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Samson , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1873 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. I. Reihe, Heft V, no. 3, Dresden, Arnold [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Schneider , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published 1885 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Wien, Ludewig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Nachts in der Kajüte", 1860 [ voice and orchestra ], Together with the next poem of Heine [sung text not yet checked]
- by A. M. Somov , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Celia C. Stevens , "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", published c1919 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Tiehsen (1817 - 1849), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 5, published 1846 [ voice, piano, and violoncello or horn ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anton Urspruch (1850 - 1907), "Das Meer hat seine Perlen", op. 3 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), "Auf dem Meere", published 1880; 1885 [ voice and piano ], from Album of German Songs (later published as Sixteen German Songs), no. 10, London, Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.; also reprinted by Recital Publications (Texas) in 1995 , also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich von Wickede (1834 - 1904), "Nachts in der Kajüte", op. 2 (Drei Lieder für Tenor) no. 1, published 1871 [ tenor and piano ], Berlin, Bote und Bock [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Agathe Ursula Backer-Grøndahl.
- Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , "The sea hath its pearls", appears in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, first published 1846 ; composed by Bruce Adolphe, Robert Earle Anderson, Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, Michael William Balfe, W. Biermann, John W. Bischoff, Henry Bond, William Borrow, Johannes Braunschiedl, Henry Burck, Cecil Burleigh, Carl Reinhold Busch, Luigi Caracciolo, Frederick Scotson Clark, George Howard Clutsam, T. H. Cooperson, David John Coutts, Ellen Cowdell, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, John David Davis, Herbert C. Deavin, H. A. Donald, Robert S. Flagler, James Cliffe Forrester, Tom Harrison Frewin, Rudolph Ganz, Robert Goldbeck, Charles Gounod, Mrs. M. H. Gulesian, Ivor Gurney, Percy Harmon, Cuthbert Harris, Bertram C. Henry, Joseph Holbrooke, Helen Hopekirk, Oliver Arthur King, Victor Kolar, F. Lichner, Samuel Liddle, Clarence Lucas, Walter Cecil Macfarren, William Mairhofer, Jessie Miller, Osma C. Morrill, Cecile Neuhaus, Joseph Edward Newell, George Stephenson Oldham, J. Herbert Olding, John A. O'Shea, James Cutler Dunn Parker, C. Pavesi, Elizabeth Philp, Ciro Ercole Pinsuti, Il Cavaliere, William Prendergast, Olga V. Radecke, Alfred Redhead, Le Roy Mitchell Rile, Herbert Sanders, Frank E. Sawyer, Vernon Spencer, Thomas Edward Spinney, Julius Sprenger, Svengali, Berthold Tours, Charles John Vincent, Jr., Ida Walter, Samuel Prowse Warren, Maude Valérie White, Ernest Whyte, J. J. Wickham, Benjamin E. Woolf, Vernon O. Wright.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by (Paul) Jules Barbier (1825 - 1901) ; composed by Charles Gounod.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Léon-Émile Petitdidier (1839 - 1927) ; composed by Sylvio Lazzari.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Abel Nathan ; composed by Abel Nathan.
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- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Bernardino Zendrini (1839 - 1879) ; composed by Leopoldo Govenini.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "By the sea", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "In the cabin at night", appears in The Poems of Heine Complete, first published 1861
- ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , no title, appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 64
The ocean hath its pearls
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
The ocean hath its pearls, The heaven hath its stars, But oh! my heart, my heart, My heart hath its love. Great are the sea and the heavens, But greater is my heart; And fairer than pearls or stars Glistens and glows my love. Thou little youthful maiden, Come unto my mighty heart! My heart, and the sea, and the heavens Are melting away with love.
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Confirmed with C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes, 1917.
Text Authorship:
- by Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887), no title, appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Nordsee, in Erster Zyklus, in 7. Nachts in der Kajüte, no. 1
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: David Evan Thomas
This text was added to the website: 2008-05-05
Line count: 12
Word count: 66