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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
