POEMS JAMES CLARENCE MAMAN; BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION JOHN MITCHEL. NEW YORK: P. M. IIAVERTY, 112 FULTON- STREET. 1859. Entered according to Act of ("oiifjress, in the year 1859, UY P. M. HAVKRTY, the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New Yoik. REXNIE. SHEA & LINDSAY, STKKKOTYPKK vn Ft 81, 83 AW CKNTKK SIUEET, Mi\V YORK. MS CONTENTS PARE JAMES MANG AN : his Life, Poetry, and Death 7 <Tn FRIEDRICII SCHILLER. The Lay of the Bell 33 The Message to the Iron Foundry 48 The Diver 57 Polycrates and his Ring 63 The Hostage 66 The Maiden's Plaint 72 The Lament of Ceres 73 The Unrealities 77 To my Friends 81 The Maid of Orleans 83 The Secret 83 The Words of Reality 85 The Words of Delusion 86 The Course of Time 87 Breadth and Depth 88 Light and Warmth 89 Thecla : a Voice from the World of Spirits 90 Hope 91 LUDWIG UIILAND. The G olden Apple 92 The Love adieu 93 Ichabod ! the glory has departed 93 Spirits Everywhere 94 Spring Roses 95 The Jeweller's Daughter 97 The Castle over the Sea 100 Dtirand of Blonden 102 Forward ! 103 LUDWIG TIEK. Life is the desert and the solitude 105 Autumn Song 107 Pleasure IDS Light and Shade 109 JUSTINUS KEENER. The Four Idiot Brothers Ill The Faithful Steed 113 The Garden that fades not 114 The Midnight Bell 110 The Wanderer's ( 'haul 117 The Poet's Consolation 118 % Home-sick ness 1 lit To the Ghost-seeress of Prevorst, as she lay on her death-bed 120 To the Ghost-seeress of Prevorst, after her decease 121 The Lover's Farewell 122 To Ludwig Uliland, on the last \olume of his Poems 123 Xot at Home .^124 GOTTFRIED AUGUSTUS BUERGER. Leonore : a Ballad 125 The Abduction of the Lady Gertrude von Hochburg 134 The Demon- Yager 145 Hope 153 219038 4 CONTENTS. KARL SIMROCK. TAG* () 155 Maria, Regina Misericordise ! EDUARD MOERIKE. My River 158 JOIIAXX ELIAS SCIILEGEL. Lo ve-dil ty 160 EMAXUEL GEIBLER. Charlemagne and tlie Bridge of Moonbeams 161 JOIIAXX 1'ATL RICIITER. The XewYear's Night of a Miserable Man 163 ANONYJfOUa Where are they ? 165 KARL THEODORE KOERNER. The Minstrel's Motherland 167 Sword Song 169 OTTO RUNGE. Holiness to the Lord 174 S. A. MAHLMANN. The Grave, the Grave 1"5 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. The Lay of the Captive Count 177 Hassan Aga 180 The Minstrel 1H4 Mignon's Song 186 Tlie Violet 187 The Treasure seeker 188 The Rose 190 XThe Fisherman 191 The King of Tlnile 192 A Voice from the Invisible World 193 The A Idei -King 194 A Song from the Coptic 197 Another Coptic Song 19: An Irish Lamentation 198 FRIEDRICII GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK. To Ebert 201) To Giseke, on his departure from College 20- Early Graves 206 JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER. The Fair and Faithless One of Grailov 207 The Brother and the Sister 212 The Erl King's Daughter 215 CIIRISTOPII AUGUST TIEDGE. Forget Me Not * 218 The Field of Kunnersdorf 224 LUD\VI<; IIKINRICH CII iUSTOPH IIOELTY. The Aged Landman's Advice to his Son ~S Song exciting to < iladness '-.'51 TheGiave.diggersCha.it 232 Sn, w the Way with Flowers 2,ii FRIEDRICII Kt KCKKKT. %The Rid.- round the Parapet 234 The Dyi ng Flower 242 Nature more than Science 245 GDIIU in tlu- Wind 24<> And th.-n no Mon- 2IS The Cutlieilral of Cologne 2 W CONTENTS. AUGUST SCIINEZLER. PAGE The Deserted Mill 251 The Lily-Maidens 253 WILHELM MUELLER. The Sunken City 255 The Bride of the Dead 256 Noon-day Dreaming 257 FRIEDRICH BARON DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE. Vale and Highway 258 r Alexander the Great and the Tree i ><) A Sigh 2(52 FERDINAND FREILIGRATH. The Spectre Caravan 263 The Lion's Ride 2<M Iceland-Moss Tea 269 The Sheik of Mount Sinai 272 The King of Congo and his Hundred Wives 275 To a Skating NegVo 277 The A lexandi ine Metre 279 Grabbe 280 My Themes 284 The White Lady.. 287 Freedom and Right 290 FRIEDRICH VON MATTHISSON. An Evening Landscape 293 Love's Reminiscences 294 To the Beloved One 295 JOHANN GAUDENZ BARON VON SALIS-SEEWIS. Cheerfulness 296 The Grave 299 AUGUST ADOLF LUDWIG FOLLEN. Freedom 300 FRIEDRICH LEOPOLD COUNT STOLBERG. To a Mountain Cataract 301 The Grave 303 ERNST MORITZ ARNDT. The German Fatherland 304 AUGUST VON KOTZEBUE. Be Merry and Wise 306 KARL EGON EBERT. The Revenge of Duke Swerting 308 KARL IMMERMANN. The Student of Prague 31 1 ALOYS SCHREIBER. A Drinking Song 316 FERDINAND GOTTFRIED MAX VON SCHENKENDORF. Andreas Hofer 317 JULIUS MOSEX. The Death of Hofer 319 AUGUST LAMKY. Fuimus 321 FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HEYDEN. The Last Words of Al-Hassan 322 JOHANX WILHELM LUDWIG GLEIM. The Little Hut .- 325 CONTENTS. JOIIANN MARTIN MILLER. PAGE The Sentimental Gardener 326 AUGUST KUH.V. The Bereaved One 328 CONRAD WKTZEL. Song 331 O, my Heart!. Good Night. COUNT EICHENDOBF. The Miller's Daughter 334 GEORG IIKRWEGH. The Song of Hatred 335 BARON YON ZEDLITZ. The Midnight Review 337 Dark Rosaleen 341 of 344 Shane Bwee ; or, The Captivity the Gaels A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry 347 Sarsfield 349 Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga 353 The Dawning of the Day 357 The Dream of John Mac-Donnell 359 The Sorrows of Innisfail 362 The Testament of Cathaeir Mor 364 Rui-y and Darvorgilla 371 The Expedition and Death of King Dathy 376 Piince Aldfiid's Itinerary through Ireland 379 KinkorH 3*2 ' Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnell 384 O'lluvey's dil,' to the Magiiire 393 Kathalee'u Ny-llonlahan. '. 397 Welcome to the Prince 398 I ,ament for Hauba 401 Ellen P.awn 403 1 ,ove Bal lad 404 The Vision ot Conor O'Sullivan 407 Patrick Condon's Vision 408 410 Sighik- N i Gura St. Patrick's Hymn before Tarah 413 The Karamanian Exile 418 The Wail and Warning of the Three Khalendeers 421 The Time of the Barmecides 425 The Mariner's Uride 427 To the Ingleezee Khalir, calling himself Djaun Bool Djenkinzun 428 itUsccU;nuoa$. Soul and Country 430 433 A Vision of ( ionnaught 'in the* Thirteenth' Century An Invitation 436 The Warning Voice W The Lovely Lund 441 443 The Sa w Mi 1 1 44;) 1 1 :i Irish National Hymn 446 Kroken-heftrted Lays -i4S The (hi,- M \stcry *j !'- 'I he Nameless ( Ine t The I ).\ ing Enthusiast -l.j 4oo 'I'll Jo .cpli I'.icnaM 45* 'luent\ Gold,-. ', HIS LIFE, POETRY, AND DEATH. is a daring adventure, perhaps, in this more than Au- gustan age of poesy, an age which has produced, it seems, upwards of one hundred hards in our language alone (see Poets of the Nineteenth Century by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmot and Evert A. Duyckinck), to demand the attention of the literary world to another poet of the aforesaid nineteenth century : a poet, too, whose writings have been all published, and whose life has been ended more than ten so that if there was in years ago ; any thing liis work truly excellent, and worthy so enlightened an age, it is presumable that it would have been found out ere now. In that collection of the poetic gems of our time and tongue by Messrs. Willmot and Duyckinck, with its one or two hundred im- mortal names, the name of Clarence Mangan has no place. Mr. Dana, in his highly meritorious, though not altogether blameless, Iloustholl Book of Poetry, displaying specimens and master-pieces " of three or four hundred poets" in our tongue, has, indeed, found room for two of Mangan's translations from the German and those by no means amongst the best. A natural inquiry will sugirt;sl itself to many readers, Who, then, is this new old poet? Mackay we know, and Alexander Smith we know, but who art Thou? If he was indeed a true poet, would not the critical acu- of our have discovered him if he has lain so men literary age ; long in oblivion, let him lie : we have poets enough and to spare. Not by any means desiring to obtrude an obscure parvenu amongst that crowd of immortals, nor intending to pluck one leaf of ivy from the brow of a Mackay or a Smith, or a laurel from the " chaplet of the bard who sings Riflemen. Form !" not designing 8 JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN : to dispute about tastes, or to importune a cultivated public which has its hands and head already too full, and labours only under an embarras Je richesses, I have yet undertaken, at the desire of a bold publisher, to introduce the almost unknown name and writings of James Clarence Mangan modestly and bashfully to American readers. And I am the more emboldened to this en- terprise, in calling to mind with what eager admiration the few samples of his strange melodies which have found their way to the innumerable readers of this continent, were welcomed and rejoiced over. The comparative unacquaintance, also, of Ameri- cans with these poems may be readily accounted for, when we remember how completely British criticism gives the law through- out the literary domain of that semi-barbarous tongue in which I have now the honour to indite. For this Mangan was not only an Irishman, not only an Irish papist, not only an Irish papist rebel; but throughout his whole literary life of twenty years, he never deigned to attorn to English criticism, never published a line in any English periodical, or through any English bookseller, never seemed to be aware that there was a British public to please.