On Wings of Song (poem and song)

"On Wings of Song" (German: "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges") is a poem by the German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine. It was published in Buch der Lieder in 1827. Felix Mendelssohn set it to music as the second of his "six songs for voice and piano" (Opus 34-2, 1834). Franz Liszt arranged On Wings of Song for solo piano (S. 547).

This song has been translated into other languages and has been adopted in school music textbooks for China, Japan and Korea.