What tears are falling from the Pleiades!
What sobs tear out Orion’s jewelled heart!
Ah me! As these, as these!
Heinrich.
Speak, speak to me!
Else, I am feared. Why run these tears to earth?
Why shakes your bosom? Why does glory flame
A crown, a cincture? What befell you there?
Tannhäuser.
I came to Rome across the winter snows