The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life

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 “La...

Thalatta! Thalatta! Hail to thee, O thou Ocean eterne! Hail to thee ten thousand times From hearts all exulting, As formerly hail’d thee Ten thousand Grecian hearts, Misfortune-...

Not a sail on the slave-ship is fluttering now, As though without tackle she’s lying; But lanthorns are glimmering high on the decks Where the dance with the music is vying.

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...

“My gum and pepper are good: the stock “Is three hundred chests of all sizes; “I’ve gold dust and ivory too in store, “But the black ware by far the best prize is.

[95] This was the nickname of a young lady whose acquaintance Heine made towards the end of his life, who attended him in his last illness, and for whom he felt a strong affecti...

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 S...

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 T...

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...

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...