Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rhine, the River | | The Rhine | | Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
| | Translated by C. G. Leland
HILLS and towers are gazing downward | |
| In the mirror-gleaming Rhine, | |
| And my boat drives gayly onward, | |
| While the sun-rays round it shine. | |
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| Calm I watch the wavelets stealing, | 5 |
| Golden gleaming, as I glide; | |
| Calmly too awakes the feeling | |
| Which within my heart I hide. | |
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| Gently greeting and assuring, | |
| Bright the river tempts me on; | 10 |
| Well I know that face alluring! | |
| Death and night lie further down! | |
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| Joy above, at heart beguiling,— | |
| Thou ’rt my own love’s image, Flood! | |
| She too knows the art of smiling, | 15 |
| She can seem as calm and good. | | | | |
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