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 237
Sunset 237
The Night on the Strand 239
Poseidon 240
Homage 242
Declaration 242
In the Cabin at Night 243
The Storm 245
Calm at Sea 246
The Ocean-Spectre 247
Purification 249
Peace 249
PART II. (1826)
Sea Salutation 251
Thunderstorm 253
The Shiprecked One 253
Sunset 254
The Song of the Oceanides 256
The Gods of Greece 258
Questions 260
The Phœnix 261
Echo 261
Sea-Sickness 262
In Harbour 263
Epilogue 265
Monologue (from book Le Grand) 1826 266
ATTA TROLL, a Summer Night’s Dream 267
GERMANY, a Winter Tale 326
ROMANCERO
BOOK I. HISTORIES
Rhampsenitus 380
The White Elephant 382
Knave of Bergen 387
The Valkyres 388
Hastings’ Battle-field 389
Charles I. 392
Marie Antoinette 393
The Silesian Weavers 395
Pomare 395
The Apollo God 398
Hymn to King Louis 401
Two Knights 402
Our Marine (_A Nautical Tale_) 404
The Golden Calf 405
King David 405
King Richard 406
The Asra 406
The Nuns 407
Palgravine Jutta 408
The Moorish King 409
Geoffrey Rudèl and Melisanda of Tripoli 411
The Poet Ferdusi 412
Voyage by Night 417
The Prelude 418
Vitzliputzli 420