^. c^ .^^ ->. .^^Y,^". •J- V Z7! .0 o^ '^- O^ Y * O - ^ * . '^^' ,^V^' % ^'^^ .N^ A^ o 0' .0 o. **•/* ^_^/???^'' ,.%^ % " ^H '. .0 o^ > .0 '/-' ' o ft ^ o. v\ ,x >«N r . o c ^ "<-' ^ ^^^ oo' V^ x^^^. V . ^' ' " .0^ 9. ^ .0^^ ' , X ^. .^ ^^^ .^:^ ^-t ^^, .0- '%^^ 'b^<^. "OO^ °^. ^5 ^U = \^ * ^ ^0^' ^ .0 M ^ POEMS BY JAMES CLAPiENCE'^IANGAN; BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION JOIIX MITCHEL. :! NEW YORK: P. M. HAVERTY, 112 FULTON- STREET. j ' 1859. N 0^ I. <^"b 4'^ A? Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, Hy I". M. IIAVKRTY, 111 ilie Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New Yoik. REN'NIK, SHEA & LIXDSAY, Stekeotypkks and Electrotyhki 81, !r3.t!%'> ("K^Tlu•:-.STUEET, NEW YORK. , co]srTE]srTS PAGE James Mang an : his Life, Poetry, and Death 7 (^txmixn giutljolofiiT. FRIEDRICII SCIIILLKR. The [.ay of the JJell 33 The Messa^'e to the Iron Foundiy 48 The DiN er. 57 I'olyoriitf.s and his Ring 6S The 1 1..St age ..:::...::::::: 66 Tlie Maiden's Plaint 72 The l.ainent of (Jeies 73 'J 1j.' Linealities 77 To u;y Friends '. 81 The Maid of Orleans 83 'I'lie Secret ' 83 The Words of Reality '.'.'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'... '. '. '. '. '.'.".V..V.V.V. '. 85 The Words of Delusion 86 ( The 'oin se of Time ......[........]] 87 Breadih and Depth .........!.. 88 Lif^ht aiid Warmth \[\\ 89 Theehi a \'oice : from the World of Spirits 90 Hope gi LUDWIG UHL.VND. The Golden Apple 92 The Love adieu 93 tlie Ichabod ! glory has departed 93 Spirits Kverywhere 94 Spring Roses 95 The Jeweller's Daughter 97 The ('astle over the Sea 100 Durand of IJlonden 102 Forward ! I03 LUDWIG TIKK. Life is the desert and the solitude 105 Autumn Song ] 107 Pleasure 108 Light and Shade 109 JUSTINUS KERXER. The Four Idiot Brothers HI The Faithful Steed 113 The Garden that fades not .. 114 The Midnight Bell ! . 1 16 The Wanderer's Chant II7 The Poet's Consolation 118 Homesickness 119 To the (ihostseeress of Prevorst, as .she lay on her death-bed VM To the (Jhost-seeiess of Prevorst, after her decease 121 The Lover's Farewell 122 To Ludwig Uhiand, on the last volume of his Poems 123 Not at Home 121 GOTTFRIED AUGUSTUS BUERGER. Leonore : a Ballad 125 The Abduction of the Lady Gertrude von Hochburg 134 1'lie Demon- Vager IJo Wope 153 V 4 CONTENTS. KARL SIMROCK. PAGE O Maria, Regina Misericoidiae ! 155 EDUARD MOERIKE. My Ri ver 158 JOHANN ELIAS SCHLEGEL. Love-ditty 160 EMANUEL GEIBLER. Cliarleniague and the Bridge of Moonbeams IGl JOIIANxV PAUL RICHTER. The New-Year's Night of a Miserable Man 1G3 ANONYMOUS. 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 175 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. The Lay of the Captive Count 177 Hassan Aga 180 The Minstrel 184 Mignon's Song 186 The Violet 187 The Treasure seeker 188 The Rose 190 The Fisherman 191 The King of Thiile 192 A Voice from tiie Invisible World 193 The Alder- King 194 A Song from the l/optie 197 Another iJoptic Song 198 Au Irish Lamentation 198 FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOl'STOCK. To Ebert 200 To Giseke, on his departure from College i;04 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 CHRISTOPH AUGUST TIEDGE. Forget Me Not 218 The Field of Kunnersdorf 224 LUDWIG HEINRICH CHRISTOPH HOELTY. The Aged Landman's Advice to his Son 228 Song exciting to Gladness 231 The (irave-digger's Chant 232 Strew the Way with Flowers 2;i3 FRIEDRICH RUECKERT. The Ride round the Parapet 234 Tlu- 1 ) iiig Flower 242 Naiuie more tliun Science 245 (iiMie in tlie Wind 246 And then no More 2JS The Cathedral of Cologne 249 CONTENTS. AUGUST SCHNEZLER. PAGE The Deserted Mill 251 The Lily-Maidens 253 WILHELM MUELLER. The Sunken Cit v 255 The Bride of the Dead 256 Noon-day Dreaming 257 FRIEDRICH BARON DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE. Vale and Highway 258 Alexander the Great and the Tree 259 A Sigh 262 FERDINAND FREILIGRATH. The Spectre Caravan 263 The Lion's Ride 266 Iceland-Moss Tea 269 The Sheik <>( .Mmint Sinai 272 The King ut I'oiigo and his Hundred Wives 275 To a Skating Xt-gio 277 The A lexandriue Metre 279 Grabhe 280 M V Themes 2Si The White Ladv i 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 Stndent of Prague 311 ALOYS SCHREIBER. A Drinking Song 316 FERDINAND GOTTFRIED MAX VON SCHENKENDORF. Andreas Hofer 317 JULIUS MOSRN. The Death of Hofer 319 AUGUST LAMKY. Fuimus 321 FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HEYDEN. The Last Words of Al-Hassan 322 JOHANN WILHELM LUDWIG GLEIM. The Little Hut , 325 CONTENTS. JOHANN MARTIN MILLER. PAGE The Sentimental Gardener 326 AUGUST KUHN. The Bereaved One 328 CONRAD WETZEL. Song 331 O, my Heart ! 332 Good Night 333 COUNT EICHENDORF. The Miller's Daughter 334 GEORG HERWEGH. The Song of Hatred 335 BARON VON ZEDLITZ. The Midnight Review 337 Irislj g^ntljologg. Dark Rosaleen 341 Shane Bwee ; or, The Captivity of the Gaels 344 A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry 347 Sai stield 349 Lament over the Ruins of the Abbey of Teach Molaga 3.53 The Dawning of the Day 357 The Dream of .John Mac-Donnell 359 The Sorrows of Innislail 362 The Testament of (^athaeir .Mor 364 Rury and Darvorgilla 371 The Expedition and Death of King Dathy 376 Pi ince Aldfrids Itinerary through Ireland 379 Kinkora 382 Lament for the I'rinces of Tyrone and Tyrconnell 384 O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire 393 Kathuleen Xy-llonlahan 397 Welcome to the Prince 398 Lament for Banba 401 Ellen liawn 403 1 ,ove Ballad 404 'I'lie A'i.sion of Conor O'Snllivan 407 Patrick (./'onrtoiTs Vision 408 Si-rhile Ni Gaia ?... 410 SI. Patricks ilynin before Tarah 413 gpotrirpI^iT, ilie Karamanian Exile 418 i he Wail an<i Warning of the Three Khalendeers 421 The Time of the Barmecides 425 The Mariner's Bride 427 To the Ingleezee Khatir, calling himself Djaun Bool Djcnkinzun 428 iglistcllnncous. Sonl and Count ry 430 Siberia 432 A Vision of (.'onnanghl in the Thirteenth Century 433 An Invitation 436 The Warning Voice 437 'J'he L()\ ei\ Land 441 Tho Sm w Mill 443 Ct^an Siilla 445 Irish .National Hvmn 446 Bn.ken-hearted Lays 448 The ( )ne .My.stery 450 The .Vameless One 452 Tin- 1)> ing EnthusiSist 454 To Joseph Hreiian 456 Twenty Goldeti Years Ago 458 — HIS LIFE, POETRY, AND DEATH. iT is a daring adventure, perhaps, in this more than An- gustan age of poesy, an age wliicli has produced, it seems, upwards ofqiie liundred bards in our language alone (see Poets oftJieNineteentk Century by the Rev. Robert Aris Willinot and Evert A. l)uyckinck),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 years ago ; so that if there was any thing in his work truly excellent, and worthy so enlightened an age, it is presumable that it would have been found ont 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, HousekoU Book of Poetry^ displaying specimens and master-pieces of three or four hundred " poets" in our tongue, has, indeed, found room for tivo of Mangan's translations from the German and those by no means amongst the best. A natural inquiry will suggest itself to many readers,—Who, then, is this new old poet? Mackay we know, and Alexander Smith we know, but \vho art Thou? If he was indeed a true poet, would not the critical acu- men of our literary age have discovered him ; if he has lain so 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 chaplct of the bard who sings " Riflcmc)]. 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 de ridiesses^ —I have yet undertaken, at the desire of a bold publisher, to introduce the almost unknown name and writings of James Clarence Mungan 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.