Works Author:Heinrich Heine Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CLARISSA. When I offer love the truest, You are troubled and decline it; But you straightly fall to weeping, If as " no " I should divine it. I have s... more »eldom prayed—so hear me, God Almighty! Help this maid ; Of Thy grace her brain enlighten; May her pretty tears be stayed! Where you go you always see me, Always see me, your pursuer; And the worse I am entreated, I but cling to you the truer. Pretty scorn in bondage holds me, Just as kindness will remove me. Would you really send me flying, It but needs that you should love me.3. Devil take your cruel parents, Take your father, take your mother, In the theatre who hindered Us from seeing one another! Broad in finery they sat there; Scarce a loophole could I find For espying you, beloved, In the box concealed behind. On the ruin of two lovers Calm they gazed with tranquil eye, And they clapped immense approval When they saw the lovers die. Through the naughty quarters go not— Streets that pretty eyes are bright'ning. Ah! too kindly they will spare you Hint of peril from their lightning. From the lofty windows smiling, Eyes will fall on you and greet you: Eyes so friendly (Death and Devil!), Like a sister's they will meet you. Vain the struggle: you're already On the way; a load of sorrow You'll return with on your bosom, That will last for many a morrow. Now, when fairest is the summer, Wounded deep, and sick and ailing, To the wood, a lonely comer, I have borne my bitter wailing. Birds around, in pity vying, Hush their song my woe to hearken, And the wind my plaint is sighing, Where the linden branches darken. And I grieve where I am seated In the hushed and grassy hollow. " Ah, my kitten! " Soft repeated By the hills, the ...« less