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The Poems of Heine, Complete; Translated in the Original Metres. With a Sketch of Heine's Life. by Edgar Alfred Bowring
The Poems of Heine Complete Translated in the Original Metres With a Sketch of Heine's Life by Edgar Alfred Bowring Author:Heinrich Heine General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Longman Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select ... more »from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 225 1II.-THE BALTIC. 1825-26. PART L 1825. EVENING TWILIGHT. By ocean's pallid strand Sat I, tormented in spirit and lonely. The sun sank lower and lower, and threw Red glowing streaks upon the water, And the snowy, spreading billows, By the flood hard-press'd, Foam'd and roar'd still nearer and nearer -- A wonderful sound, a whisp'ring and piping, A laughing and murmuring, sighing and rushing, Between times a lullaby-home-sounding singing, - Methinks I hear some olden tradition, Primeval, favorite legend, Which I erst as a stripling Learnt from the neighbours' children, When we, on the summer evenings, On the house-door's steps all cower'd Cosily for quiet talking, With our little hearts all attentive, And our eyes all wisely curious; -- Whilst the bigger maidens, Close by their fragrant flowerpots Sat at the opposite window, Rosy their faces, Smiling, illumed by the moon. SUNSET. The glowing ruddy sun descends Down to the far up-shuddering Silvery grey world-ocean; Airy images, rosily breath'd upon, After him roll, and over against him, Out of the' autumnal glimmering veil of clouds, With face all mournful and pale as death, Bursteth forth the moon, And behind her, like sparks of light, Misty-broad, glimmer the stars. Once in the heavens there glitter'd, Join'd in fond union, Luna the goddess and Sol the god, And around them the stars all cluster'd, Their little, innocent children. But evil tongues then whisper'd disunion, And they parted in anger, That glorious, radiant pair. Now, in the dayt...« less