Galgenlieder


The Galgenlieder are a 1905 collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Morgenstern's best known works, in German these works have gone through dozens of different editions and reprints and sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

Poems

Visual poems

"Fisches Nachtgesang" consists only of patterns of dashes and brackets printed to replicate waves and bubbles.
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The Night Song of the Fish
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by Christian Morgenstern

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Musical settings