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                        BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY

                          THE POEMS OF HEINE


                         GEORGE BELL AND SONS

                    LONDON: PORTUGAL ST., LINCOLN’S INN.
                    CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO.
                    NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
                    BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER AND CO.




                          THE POEMS OF HEINE

                               COMPLETE

                  TRANSLATED INTO THE ORIGINAL METRES
                       WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE

                                  BY

                      EDGAR ALFRED BOWRING, C.B.

                       [Illustration: colophon]

                                LONDON

                         GEORGE BELL AND SONS

                                 1908

                 [_Reprinted from Stereotype plates._]





CONTENTS.


                                                                    PAGE

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION                                       viii

PREFACE                                                               ix

MEMOIR OF HEINRICH HEINE                                              xi


EARLY POEMS.

SONGS OF LOVE
      Love’s Salutation                                                1
      Love’s Lament                                                    1
      Yearning                                                         2
      The White Flower                                                 3
      Presentiment                                                     4

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
    GERMANY, 1815                                                      6
    DREAM, 1816                                                        9
    THE CONSECRATION                                                  11
    THE MOOR’S SERENADE                                               12
    DREAM AND LIFE                                                    13
    THE LESSON                                                        14
    TO FRANCIS V. Z----                                               14
    A PROLOGUE TO THE HARTZ-JOURNEY                                   15
    DEFEND NOT                                                        15
    A PARODY                                                          16
    WALKING FLOWERS AT BERLIN                                         16
    EVENING SONGS                                                     16
    SONNETS
        To Augustus William von Schlegel                              17
        To the Same                                                   17
        To Councillor George S----, of Göttingen                      19
        To J. B. Rousseau                                             19
        The Night Watch on the Drachenfels. To Fritz von B----        20
        In Fritz Steinmann’s Album                                    20
        To Her                                                        21
        Goethe’s Monument at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1821              21
        Dresden Poetry                                                21
        Beardless Art                                                 22


BOOK OF SONGS

PREFACE                                                               23

YOUTHFUL SORROWS (1817-1821)
    VISIONS                                                           24
    SONGS                                                             39
    ROMANCES                                                          43
        The Mournful One                                              43
        The Mountain Echo                                             43
        The Two Brothers                                              44
        Poor Peter                                                    44
        The Prisoner’s Song                                           45
        The Grenadiers                                                46
        The Message                                                   46
        Taking the Bride Home                                         46
        Don Ramiro                                                    47
        Belshazzar                                                    52
        The Minnesingers                                              53
        Looking from the Window                                       54
        The Wounded Knight                                            54
        The Sea Voyage                                                54
        The Song of Repentance                                        55
        To a Singer (on her singing an old romance)                   56
        The Song of the Ducats                                        57
        Dialogue on Paderborn Heath                                   57
        Life’s Salutations (from an album)                            59
        Quite True                                                    59

    SONNETS
        To A. W. von Schlegel                                         59
        To my Mother, B. Heine, _née_ von Geldern                     60
        To H. S.                                                      61
    FRESCO SONNETS to Christian S----                                 61

LYRICAL INTERLUDE (1822-23)
    PROLOGUE                                                          65
    LYRICS                                                            66
    THE GOD’S TWILIGHT                                                89
    RATCLIFF                                                          91
    DONNA CLARA                                                       94
    ALAMANSOR                                                         96
    THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR                                        100
    THE DREAM (from _Salon_)                                         102

NEW POEMS
    SERAPHINA                                                        102
    ANGELICA                                                         107
    DIANA                                                            112
    HORTENSE                                                         113
    CLARISSA                                                         115
    YOLANTE AND MARY                                                 119
    EMMA                                                             121
    FREDERICA                                                        122
    CATHERINE                                                        124
    SONGS OF CREATION                                                129
    ABROAD                                                           131
    TRAGEDY                                                          132
    THE TANNHÄUSER, A Legend                                         133

    ROMANCES
        A Woman                                                      139
        Celebration of Spring                                       