Author:Heinrich Heine

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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. A German journalist, essayist and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder by German composers.

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine

Poems

From "Die Heimkehr" (1826)

• Lore-Lei
• "Mein Kind, wir waren Kinder"

From "Buch der Lieder" (1827)

• "Bright is the Warm Morning"
• "Die Jahre kommen und gehen"
• "Du bist wie eine Blume"
• "Es liegt der heiße Sommer"
• "Es stehen unbeweglich"
• "Ich wollte bei dir weilen"
• "Kind! es ware dein Verderben"
• A Love-Song ("Saphire sind die Augen dein")
• The Pilgrimage to Kevlaar ("Die Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar")
• "So hast du ganz und gar vergessen"
• Summer Eve ("Dämmernd liegt der Sommerabend")
• "Sie haben heut' Abend Gesellschaft"
• "Still ist die Nacht, es ruh'n die Gassen"
• "Und wüssten's die Blumen, die Kleinen"
• "Was will die einsame Thrane?"
• "Wie kannst du ruhig schlafen"

• A Fireside Piece ("Altes Kamin-Stück")
• Love's Burial ("Altes Lied")
• "Für die Mouche"
• A Mountain Home (Bergidylle, I)
• Confessio Fidei (Bergidylle, II)
• A Mountain Transformation (Bergidylle, III)
• To my Mother

External links

• The Poems of Heine, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (London, 1866, Google)
• Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, translated by Emma Lazarus, New York, 1881 Internet Archive
• Lyrics and ballads of Heine and other German poets, translated by Frances Hellman, New York, London, 1892 Internet Archive

About

• Benjamin W. Wells, “Heine, Heinrich,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Heine, Heinrich” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Heine, Heinrich” by Gustav Karpeles  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Heine, Heinrich,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.