Lost in the whirlwind of thy love, and tossed

A wreck on its irremeable sea!

Life! Life! This kiss! Draw in thy breath! To me!

To me![Tannhäuser is lost.

ACT II.

“But a moment’s thought is passion’s passing bell.”

—Keats, Lamia.

In Venusberg.

Venus.

S WEET, sweet are May and June, dear,