How can I e'er forget thee! No other love I know. How can I e'er forget thee, Since all to me thou art! So long as living, loving, One pulse is in my heart, I'll think of nought but thee alone, To merit to be called thine own. How can I e'er forget thee, Since all to me thou art! H. HOFFMANN V. FALLERSLEBEN.-Mein Lieben. C THOU ART TO ME A FLOWER. THOU art to me a flower So fair and pure and bright, I gaze at thee, and sorrow Comes stealing on delight. I long to lay, a moment, My hands upon thy hair, So bright and pure and fair. HEINE.-Du bist wie eine Blume. AND DOES MY PALE CHEEK NOT BETRAY. AND does my pale cheek not betray A heart by sorrow riven ? And wouldst thou hear my rebel lips Implore to be forgiven? O they are proud! In jest they curl, They utter perchance a scornful word The while I die of anguish. HEINE-Verrieth mein blasses Angesicht. HAST THOU LEARNT INDEED TO HATE ME ? HAST thou learnt indeed to hate me? Is the change indeed completed? I by thee am evil treated. O ye cruel lips and thankless, Can ye bear to utter treason Against him who has so fondly Kissed you in a happier season? HEINE.-Bist du wirklich mir so feindlich? 1 DREAMT AND WEF1 IN DREAMING. I DREAMT and wept in dreaming Thou wert wrapped in thy winding-sheet. I woke, yet awhile the tear-drops I dreamt and wept in dreaming Thou wert fickle and false to me. I woke, and for long my weeping I dreamt and wept in dreaming Thou wert fond and true as of yore. I woke, and my tears at waking Are flowing evermore. HEINE--Ich hab' im Traum geweinet. |