1815 songs

thumb|upright=1.2|Heidenröslein "''''''" (“Little Rose on the Heath”) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1771 during his Strasbourg period, inspired by his relationship with Friederike Brion, the daughter of a local parson in Sessenheim with whom he had a brief but intense love affair. The poem was first published as verse in 1789 by Georg Joachim Göschen. It describes a young man who observes a freshly blooming rose sitting upon a heath and decides to pluck it, despite the rose's warning that it will prick him so that he will never be able to forget the flower. The poem has be

song composed by Franz Schubert

poem by Friedrich Schiller

English folk song