Das sterbende Kind

Wie doch so still dir am Herzen
Ruhet das Kind!
Weiß nicht, wie Mutterschmerzen
So herbe sind!
Auf Stirn und Lippen und Wangen
Ist schon vergangen
Das süße Rot.
Und dennoch heimlicherweise 
Lächelt es leise. --
Leise 
Küsset es der Tod!

by Emanuel von Geibel (1815-1884) , "Das sterbende Kind", from Jugendgedichte, in Erstes Buch, in Lübeck und Bonn

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke (1835-1913) , "Das sterbende Kind", op. 24 (Trauer und Trost) no. 2, published 1894. [high voice and piano]
by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) , "Das sterbende Kind", A. Add. 2 (c1905-11). [medium voice and piano]
by Robert Kahn (1865-1951) , "Wie doch so still dir am Herzen", op. 9 (Zwei Lieder) no. 2, published 1891 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Kahnt Nachf.
by Max Reger (1873-1916) , "Das sterbende Kind", op. 23 (Vier Lieder) no. 3 (1898).
by Bertha Frensel Wegener-Koopman (1874-1953) , "Das sterbende Kind", published 1909, from Acht Lieder, no. 1.

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