Loreley
Heinrich
Heine
Heine, Heinrich
Translator
Rev.
Charles Pelham
Mulvany
Mulvany, Charles Pelham
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Kaitlyn
Fralick
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Included in an instalment of Lost: A Romance (257-280) by John C. Freund. Poet attribution: <ref target="https://oxfordsong.org/song/die-loreley">Oxford Leider</ref> (14 March 2024). The poem is entitled Die Loreley in German. (AC)
The Dark Blue
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I know not what thoughts are thronging
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I know not what thoughts are thronging
My heart with their wondrous chime ;
They fill me with passionate longing
For a dream of the bygone time.
The sky with clouds is darkling,
But gently flows the Rhine ;
In dyes of sunset sparkling
The mountain summits shine.
And, there on the height is reclining
A lady, wondrous fair ;
Her golden jewels are shining,
She binds her golden hair.
With a golden comb she binds it
And sings a magic song,
Intrancing melody winds it
Rivers and cliffs along.
The fisherman hears it ringing
With woe and wild surprise ;
He hears but the lady singing,
He heeds not the storm arise.
And darkly will roll the river
O’er fisher and boat ere long,
Such ruin is linked for ever
With Lorley and her song.