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TRANSLATED INTO THE ORIGINAL METRES WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE
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
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