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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                                        139
        Childe Harold                                                140
        The Exorcism                                                 140
        Extract from a letter                                        141
        The Evil Star                                                142
        Anno 1829                                                    142
        Anno 1839                                                    143
        At Dawn                                                      144
        Sir Olave                                                    144
        The Water Nymphs                                             146
        Bertrand de Born                                             147
        Spring                                                       147
        Ali Bey                                                      148
        Psyche                                                       149
        The Unknown One                                              149
        The Change                                                   150
        Fortune                                                      150
        Lamentation of an old German Youth                           150
        Away!                                                        151
        Madam Mette (from the Danish)                                151
        The Meeting                                                  153
        King Harold Harfagar                                         154
        The Lower World                                              155

    MISCELLANIES
        Muledom                                                      158
        The Symbol of Madness                                        158
        Pride                                                        160
        Away!                                                        161
        Winter                                                       161
        The Old Chimney-piece                                        162
        Longing                                                      162
        Helena                                                       163
        The Wise Stars                                               163
        The Angels                                                   163

    POEMS FOR THE TIMES
        Sound Doctrine                                               164
        Adam the First                                               164
        Warning                                                      165
        To a Quondam Follower of Goethe (1832)                       165
        The Secret                                                   166
        On the Watchman’s Arrival in Paris                           166
        The Drum Major                                               167
        Degeneracy                                                   169
        Henry                                                        169
        Life’s Journey                                               170
        The New Jewish Hospital at Hamburg                           170
        George Herwegh                                               171
        The Tendency                                                 172
        The Child                                                    173
        The Primrose                                                 173
        The Changeling                                               174
        The Emperor of China                                         174
        Church-Counsellor Prometheus                                 175
        To the Watchman                                              176
        Consoling thoughts                                           176
        The World Turned Upside Down                                 177
        Enlightenment                                                178
        Wait Awhile!                                                 179
        Night Thoughts                                               179

NEW SPRING
    PROLOGUE                                                         180
    LYRICS                                                           180


PICTURES OF TRAVEL

THE RETURN HOME (1823-24)                                            195

THE HARTZ-JOURNEY (1821)                                             229

THE BALTIC (1825-26)
    PART I. (1825)
        Evening Twilight