BOHN’S STANDARD LIBRARY
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
THE POEMS OF HEINE BY
LONDONReprinted from Stereotype plates. ]
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] [Book II. Lamentations] [Wood Solitude] [434] [Spanish Lyrics] [438] [The Ex-living One] [445] [The Ex-Watchman] [446] [Mythology] [449] [In Matilda’s Album] [449] [To the Young] [449] [The Unbeliever] [450] [Whither Now?] [450] [An Old Song] [451] [Ready Money] [452] [The Old Rose] [452] [Auto-da-Fe] [452] [Lazarus] [The Way of the World] [453] [Retrospect] [453] [Resurrection] [454] [The Dying One] [455] [Rascality] [455] [Retrospect] [456] [Imperfection] [456] [Pious Warning] [457] [The Cooled-down One] [457] [Solomon] [458] [Lost Wishes] [458] [The Anniversary] [459] [Meeting Again] [460] [Mrs. Care] [460] [To the Angels] [461] [In October, 1849] [461] [Evil Dreams] [463] [It Goes Out] [464] [The Will] [464] [Enfant Perdu] [465] [Book III. Hebrew Melodies] [Princess Sabbath] [466] [Jehuda Ben Halevy] [470] [Disputation] [492] [LATEST POEMS (1853-54)] [Miscellaneous] [Peace Yearning] [504] [In May] [504] [Body and Soul] [505] [Red Slippers] [506] [Babylonian Sorrows] [507] [The Slave Ship] [508] [Affrontenburg] [512] [Appendix to “Lazarus”] [514] [The Dragon Fly] [520] [Ascension] [521] [The Affianced Ones] [524] [The Philanthropist] [525] [The Whims of the Amorous] [527] [Mimi] [529] [Good Advice] [530] [Reminiscences of Hammonia] [531] [The Robbers] [533] [The Young Cats’ Club for Poetry-Music] [533] [Hans Lack-Land] [535] [Recollections from Krähwinkel’s Days of Terror] [537] [The Audience (an old Fable)] [538] [Kobes I.] [539] [Epilogue] [544] [Addenda] [The Song of Songs] [545] [The Suttler’s Song (from the Thirty Years’ War)] [546] [POSTHUMOUS POEMS] [Horse and Ass] [548] [The Ass-Election] [550] [Bertha] [552] [In the Cathedral] [552] [The Dragon-fly] [553] [Old Scents] [554] [Miserere] [555] [To Matilda] [556] [For the “Mouche”] [556]
A NEW edition of this work having been called for, owing to the first edition having been for some time out of print, I have taken advantage of the opportunity to add translations of a remarkable collection of Poems by Heine, published for the first time since the appearance of my work in 1859. They consist of as many as twelve hundred lines, described partly as “Early Poems,” which will be found at the beginning of the volume, and partly as “Posthumous Poems,” which are placed at the end. The metres of the original have been again retained throughout.
Various errors discovered by me in the first edition have now been corrected; and it only remains for me to express my thanks for the kind manner in which the critical and the general public, both in England and abroad, have received the work, and for the indulgence extended by them to its many imperfections.
E. A. B.
