The poems of Heine; Complete

PART I. 1825.

1. EVENING TWILIGHT.

By ocean’s pallid strand Sat I, tormented in spirit and lonely. The sun sank lower and lower, and threw Red glowing streaks upon the water, And the snowy, spreading billows, By the flood hard-press’d, Foam’d and roar’d still nearer and nearer-- A wonderful sound, a whisp’ring and piping, A laughing and murmuring, sighing and rushing, Between ...