HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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people of genius, irresistibly impelled
to try and express themselves in verse,
launching out into a deep which destinyhas
sown with so many rocks for
thein, — the comfort of coming to a
man of genius, who finds in verse his
freest and most perfect expression,
whose voyage over the deep of poetry
destiny makes smooth! After the
rhythm, to us, at any rate, with the
German paste in our composition, so
deeply unsatisfying, of —
'• All! que me dites-vous, et que vous dit mon
ame ?
Que dit le ciel a I'aube et la flamme a la
flamme? "
what a blessing to arrive at rhythms
like —
" Take, oh, take those lips away.
That so sweetly were forsworn —"
or —
" Siehst sehr sterbeblas.slieh aiis,
Docli getrost! du hist zu Haus —"
m which one's soul can take pleasure!
The magic of Heine's poetical form is incomparable
; he chiefly uses a form of old
German popular poetry, a ballad-form
which has more rapidity and grace than
any ballad-form of ours ; he employs
this form with the most exquisite lightness
and ease, and yet it has at the
same time the inborn fulness, pathos,
and old-world charm of all true forms of