Wanderlieder

Joseph von Eichendorff

Eichendorff’s “Wanderlieder” gathers 42 poems that follow wanderers, musicians, students, soldiers, and sailors through forests, mountains, and moonlit nights. The joy of departure and song mingles with nature, love, and faith, but also with estrangement, longing, memory, and homecoming. Travel becomes both a promise of freedom and an encounter with solitude.