Chapter VI: Book III: Hebrew Melodies

Princess Sabbath 466
Jehuda Ben Halevy 470
Disputation 492

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 “Lazarus” 514
The Dragon Fly 520
Ascension 521
The Affianced Ones 524
The Philanthropist 525
The Whims of the Amorous 527
Mimi 529
Good Advice 530
Reminiscences of Hammonia 531
The Robbers 533
The Young Cats’ Club for Poetry-Music 533
Hans Lack-Land 535
Recollections from Krähwinkel’s Days of Terror 537
The Audience (an old Fable) 538
Kobes I. 539
Epilogue
ADDENDA
The Song of Songs 545
The Suttler’s Song (from the Thirty Years’ War) 546

POSTHUMOUS POEMS
Horse and Ass 548
The Ass-Election 550
Bertha 552
In the Cathedral 552
The Dragon-fly 553
Old Scents 554
Miserere 555
To Matilda 556
For the “Mouche” 556

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

A new edition of this work having been called for, owing to the first edition having been for some time out of print, I have taken advantage of the opportunity to add translations of a remarkable collection of Poems by Heine, published for the first time since the appearance of my work in 1859. They consist of as many as twelve hundred lines, described partly as “Early Poems,” which will be found at the beginning of the volume, and partly as “Posthumous Poems,” which are placed at the end. The metres of the original have been again retained throughout.

Various errors discovered by me in the first edition have now been corrected; and it only remains for me to express my thanks for the kind manner in which the critical and the general public, both in England and abroad, have received the work, and for the indulgence extended by them to its many imperfections.

E. A. B.