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Author: Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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

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

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

Heart, my heart, oh be not shaken! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA FRE RUS FRE
Here to her vows I listened (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
High in heaven stood the sun (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
How enviously the sea-mew (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Hussars are blowing their trumpets (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ITA FRE CZE
I, a most wretched Atlas, the huge world (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS ITA FRE SPA
I called the devil and he came (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
I closed my sweetheart's either eye (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
I dreamed a dream about a strange vast heath (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
I dreamed that the moon looked sadly down (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE UKR
I dreamt I was Almighty God (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS
I fain by thee would tarry (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE ITA
I fain would outpour all my sorrows (I fain would outpour all my sorrows) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - W. Hammond RUS FRE
I fain would outpour all my sorrows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS 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 ITA FRE FIN SPA
I have been wont to bear my forehead high (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA
I however lay on the edge of the vessel (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
I know not what spell is o'er me (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) 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 FIN
I know that thou must love me (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FIN
C. Krause: I know that thou must love me

I left you in the midmost of July (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS
I told not man, nor woman (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) POL
I, too, in my youth did languish (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
I tread the dear familiar path (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE FRE
In a dream I saw my sweetheart (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA FRE
In dreams I've wept, oh! so sadly DUT RUS ITA FRE HEB FIN SPA SWE HEB UKR SPA BAQ RUS DAN ITA FRE [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 ITA FRE HEB FIN SPA SWE HEB UKR SPA BAQ RUS DAN ITA FRE [x]
In Halle, near the market (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
In my life, too full of shadows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
In port (Happy the man who has reached port) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
In tears the woods I wander (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE SPA ROM FRE
In the dreamy wood I wander, in the wood at eventide (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA FRE ROM FRE
In the realm of shadows, on a throne of gold (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
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 FRE SPA
Like shadows black the houses (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Like the stalks of wheat in the fields (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Lo, a large black-shrouded barge (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
E. Whyte: Childe Harold

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

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

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

My heart is heavy; from the present (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
My heart, my heart is heavy (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
My ship sails forth with sable sails (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA ROM ITA FRE
Ne'er can I believe, young beauty (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Next to me lives Don Henriquez (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Night enfolds these foreign meadows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE FRI
Night lay upon my eyelids (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE SWE 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)
O to be a bachelor! (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Oh, my mother-in-law, Ceres (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Oh songs of mine! belovèd songs of mine (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Oh, to be chased from lovely lips! and torn (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
On the azure vault of heaven (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
On the walls of Salamanca (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
On the wan shore of the sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Only bear with me in patience (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS FRE
Our life and the world have too fragment-like grown (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Over all the quiet sea-shore (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Peace (High in heaven stood the sun ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Purification (Remain in thy deep sea-home) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Question (By the sea, by the desolate nocturnal sea) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Remain in thy deep sea-home (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Salutation to the sea (Thalatta! Thalatta! All hail to thee, thou eternal sea!) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Sapphires are those eyes of thine (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Shadow love (All things that we clasp and cherish) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - L. Lehrman ROM
Shadow-love and shadow-kisses (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ROM
E. Farrar: A dirge
L. Lehrman: Shadow love
F. Bridge: All things that we clasp

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

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

The moon and the water-lily - W. Arnold DUT RUS ITA RUS [x]
The moon is up, and brightly (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE 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) FRE
The night wind draws his trousers on (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
The ocean hath its pearls (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE ITA FRE
The pale half-moon of autumn (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
The Phoenix (A bird comes flying out of the West ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
The quiet night broods over roof-tree and steeple (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT ITA FRE SPA
The roaring waves press onward (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
The Runenstein juts in the sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ROM DAN
The sea outspreading glorious (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT ITA FRE SPA RUS
The sphinx (This is the old enchanted wood ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS
The storm for a dance is piping (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
The sunbeams played upon the wide rolling sea (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
The tempest is raging (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE FRE
The waves gleam in the sunshine (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
The years are coming and going (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE DAN
There stands a lonely pine-tree (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR RUS ITA FRE UKR
They gave me advice, they couseled sense (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS
They love one another, but neither (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ITA FRE JPN GRE FRE
They think my heart is breaking (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
This is the old enchanted wood (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS
This is the spring-tide's mournful feast (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) SPA ITA
This mad carnival of loving (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
This most amiable of fellows (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Thou fairest fisher maiden (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS POR ITA FRE SPA UKR SPA ITA FRE
Thou hast diamonds, and pearls and jewels (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) POR FRE HEB CZE
Thou seemest like a flower (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) DUT RUS HUN ITA FRE CHI SPA DUT SWE ROM FRI ITA FRE GER FIN ICE
Though thou wert fain to pass me quickly (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Thoughts (When on my couch reclining) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - H. Hadley FRE FRE
Three holy kings from the land of the West (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS FRE SWE
'Tis time that, more sober and serious grown (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
To-night they give a party (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA FRE ROM
Tonight is wretched weather (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS ITA FRE SPA
Twilight (On the wan shore of the sea ) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Unrequited (He who for the first time loves) (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) - G. Oldham FRE
Up yonder on the mountain there stands a castle tall (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Upon my loved one's little eyes (from Poems and translations) FRE
Upon the far Horizon (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) NOR DUT RUS ITA FRE SPA
Upon thy snow-white shoulders (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE CZE RUS
We sat in the fisher's cabin (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) ITA FRE FRE
We scarcely had met ere thy voice and thine eye (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE ITA
Wert thou, in sooth, mine honored wife (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE RUS
What means this lonely tear-drop (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) DUT ITA FRE HUN FRE
When I before thy dwelling (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
When I, enraptured by precious kisses (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
When I met by chance in my travels (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
When on my couch reclining (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE FRE
H. Hadley: Thoughts

Whilst I, after other people's (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Whilst their grievance each is venting (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine)
Ye could not understand mine ire (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) FRE
Yes, they are the self-same eyes (from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine) RUS FRE

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