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Author: Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine
Poems and translations

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A bird comes flying out of the West (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
A dirge (All things that we clasp and cherish) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - E. Farrar ENG
Against the wooden wall of the ship (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Ah, those pure white lily fingers (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) DUT ENG FRE
All hail to thee, thou fairest (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
All night, in the shadowy post-chaise (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
All things that we clasp (All things that we clasp and cherish) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - F. Bridge ENG
All things that we clasp and cherish (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
L. Lehrman: Shadow love
F. Bridge: All things that we clasp
E. Farrar: A dirge

An apparition in the sea (I however lay on the edge of the vessel) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
And when I lamented my cruel lot (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
As the moon with splendor pierces (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
At times thy glance appeareth to importune (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Ballad of the bony fiddler (The maiden sleeps in her chamber ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - W. Hammond ENG FRE
Ballad of the Children (My child, we two were children ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - W. Hammond ENG FRE
Ballad of the mermaid (The evening shades are falling ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - W. Hammond ENG FRE
Behold! 'tis a foam-white sea-mew (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
But the eunuchs still complained (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
By the sea, by the desolate nocturnal sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Calm (Calm at sea! The sunbeams flicker ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Calm at sea! The sunbeams flicker (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Child, I must be very careful (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Childe Harold (Lo, a large black-shrouded barge ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - E. Whyte ENG
Come, let us build upon this rock (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Coronation (Oh songs of mine! belovèd songs of mine) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Cradled by the waves of ocean (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Daily the fair Sultan's daughter (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG ITA
Dearest friend, thou art in love (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Dearest friend, what may it profit (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Death comes, and now must I make known (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Death is like the balmy night (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE FIN
Declaration (Shadowing downward came dusky evening ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Did not my pallid cheek betray (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Did she ne'er express compassion (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Dismiss me not, e'en if my thirst (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Don Ramiro (Donna Clara! Donna Clara! Hotly-loved through years of passion! ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Donna Clara! Donna Clara! Hotly-loved through years of passion! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Dost thou hate me then so fiercely? (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
C. Silvestri: Dost thou hate me then so fiercely?

Dost thou hate me then so fiercely? (Dost thou hate me then so fiercely? ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - C. Silvestri ENG FRE
Dusky summer-eve declineth (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Epilogue (Like the stalks of wheat in the fields) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
From the eyes of heaven yonder (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Gray night (Gray night broods above the ocean) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - J. Stamper ENG
Gray night broods above the ocean (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
J. Stamper: Gray night

Happy the man who has reached port (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
He who for the first time loves (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
G. Oldham: Unrequited

Heart, my heart, oh be not shaken! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE
Here to her vows I listened (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
High in heaven stood the sun (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
How enviously the sea-mew (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Hussars are blowing their trumpets (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG ITA FRE
I, a most wretched Atlas, the huge world (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SPA
I called the devil and he came (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I closed my sweetheart's either eye (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
I dreamed a dream about a strange vast heath (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I dreamt I was Almighty God (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I fain by thee would tarry (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I fain would outpour all my sorrows (I fain would outpour all my sorrows) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - W. Hammond RUS ENG FRE
I fain would outpour all my sorrows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG FRE
W. Hammond: I fain would outpour all my sorrows

I gazed upon her portrait (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SPA
I have been wont to bear my forehead high (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
I however lay on the edge of the vessel (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I know not what spell is o'er me (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE FIN SPA
I know that thou must love me (I know that thou must love me ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - C. Krause ENG
I know that thou must love me (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
C. Krause: I know that thou must love me

I left you in the midmost of July (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I told not man, nor woman (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
I, too, in my youth did languish (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
I tread the dear familiar path (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
In a dream I saw my sweetheart (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE
In dreams I've wept, oh! so sadly DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SPA [x]
W. Hammond: In dreams I've wept, oh! so sadly

In dreams I've wept, oh! so sadly (In dreams I've wept, oh! so sadly) - W. Hammond DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SPA [x]
In Halle, near the market (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
In my life, too full of shadows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
In port (Happy the man who has reached port) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
In tears the woods I wander (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
In the dreamy wood I wander, in the wood at eventide (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE
In the realm of shadows, on a throne of gold (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Lady of the harbor (Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame) - L. Hoiby
Let the snow without be piled (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG FRE
Like shadows black the houses (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Like the stalks of wheat in the fields (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Lo, a large black-shrouded barge (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
E. Whyte: Childe Harold

Lo, on the mountains the sunbeams' first kiss! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Long through my racked and weary brain (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Lord knows where the reckless creature (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Lotus blossom (The Lotus-flower trembles) (from Poems and translations) RUS BAQ ENG ITA FRE
Lovers' vows, wherefrom thou turnest (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Maiden with the lips of scarlet (Maiden with the lips of scarlet) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - R. Willian ENG ITA FRE POL
Maiden with the lips of scarlet (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE POL
R. Willian: Maiden with the lips of scarlet

Marked is the likeness 'twixt the beautiful (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Morphine (Marked is the likeness 'twixt the beautiful ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Mortal, sneer not at the devil (Mortal, sneer not at the devil ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - C. Silvestri ENG FRE
Mortal, sneer not at the devil (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
C. Silvestri: Mortal, sneer not at the devil

My child, we two were children (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
W. Hammond: Ballad of the Children

My heart is heavy; from the present (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
My heart, my heart is heavy (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
My ship sails forth with sable sails (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA
Ne'er can I believe, young beauty (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Next to me lives Don Henriquez (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Night enfolds these foreign meadows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Night lay upon my eyelids (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
L. Hoiby: Lady of the harbor

Now that heaven smiles in favor (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
O to be a bachelor! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Oh, my mother-in-law, Ceres (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Oh songs of mine! belovèd songs of mine (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Oh, to be chased from lovely lips! and torn (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
On the azure vault of heaven (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
On the walls of Salamanca (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
On the wan shore of the sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Only bear with me in patience (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG FRE
Our life and the world have too fragment-like grown (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Over all the quiet sea-shore (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Peace (High in heaven stood the sun ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Purification (Remain in thy deep sea-home) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Question (By the sea, by the desolate nocturnal sea) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Remain in thy deep sea-home (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Salutation to the sea (Thalatta! Thalatta! All hail to thee, thou eternal sea!) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Sapphires are those eyes of thine (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Shadow love (All things that we clasp and cherish) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - L. Lehrman ENG
Shadow-love and shadow-kisses (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
L. Lehrman: Shadow love
F. Bridge: All things that we clasp
E. Farrar: A dirge

Shadowing downward came dusky evening (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
She stood beside the ocean (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Shy as a fawn she passed me by (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Some to Mary bend the knee (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Song (Death comes, and now must I make known) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Song (There stands a lonely pine-tree) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR RUS ENG ITA FRE
Spring festival (This is the spring-tide's mournful feast) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG SPA
Starless and cold is the night, the sea yawns (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Storm (The tempest is raging ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Sunset (The glowing red sun descends ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Tell me where's your lovely maiden (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Thalatta! Thalatta! All hail to thee, thou eternal sea! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The Asra (Daily the fair Sultan's daughter) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG ITA
The evening shades are falling (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
W. Hammond: Ballad of the mermaid

The glowing red sun descends (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The great king Wiswamitra (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The Lotus-flower trembles (from Poems and translations) RUS BAQ ENG ITA FRE
The maiden sleeps in her chamber (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
W. Hammond: Ballad of the bony fiddler

The moon and the water-lily - W. Arnold DUT RUS ENG ITA [x]
The moon is up, and brightly (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The New Colossus (Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame)
L. Hoiby: Lady of the harbor

The night is wet and stormy (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The night wind draws his trousers on (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The ocean hath its pearls (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The pale half-moon of autumn (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The Phoenix (A bird comes flying out of the West ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The quiet night broods over roof-tree and steeple (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT ENG ITA FRE SPA
The roaring waves press onward (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
The Runenstein juts in the sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
The sea outspreading glorious (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT ENG ITA FRE SPA
The sphinx (This is the old enchanted wood ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG
The storm for a dance is piping (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The sunbeams played upon the wide rolling sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The tempest is raging (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
The waves gleam in the sunshine (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
The years are coming and going (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
There stands a lonely pine-tree (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR RUS ENG ITA FRE
They gave me advice, they couseled sense (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
They love one another, but neither (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG ITA FRE
They think my heart is breaking (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
This is the old enchanted wood (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG
This is the spring-tide's mournful feast (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG SPA
This mad carnival of loving (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
This most amiable of fellows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Thou fairest fisher maiden (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS ENG ITA FRE SPA
Thou hast diamonds, and pearls and jewels (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Thou seemest like a flower (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) DUT SPA RUS HUN ENG ITA FRE CHI
Though thou wert fain to pass me quickly (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Three holy kings from the land of the West (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG FRE
'Tis time that, more sober and serious grown (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
To-night they give a party (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG ITA FRE
Tonight is wretched weather (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) SPA RUS ENG FRE
Twilight (On the wan shore of the sea ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Unrequited (He who for the first time loves) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - G. Oldham ENG FRE
Up yonder on the mountain there stands a castle tall (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Upon my loved one's little eyes (from Poems and translations) ENG FRE
Upon the far Horizon (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT SPA RUS ENG ITA FRE
Upon thy snow-white shoulders (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
We sat in the fisher's cabin (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
We scarcely had met ere thy voice and thine eye (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Wert thou, in sooth, mine honored wife (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
What means this lonely tear-drop (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) DUT ENG FRE
When I before thy dwelling (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
When I, enraptured by precious kisses (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
When I met by chance in my travels (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
When on my couch reclining (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Whilst I, after other people's (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Whilst their grievance each is venting (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG
Ye could not understand mine ire (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ENG FRE
Yes, they are the self-same eyes (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ENG FRE

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