“AH! what 's the matter?” oft I cry, Starting from slumber deep What? where? was I asleep ?” And then I turn, and o'er my sense Again steals slumber deep, “What? where? was I asleep?” Even by broad day, at times, I start, “Where is she? wasn't she here? What? where? was I asleep ?” And cry: CARLSRUHE, March 10, 1856. I TOOK thee for a rose, thou 'rt but a poppy. CARLSRUHE, May 20, 1856. * See DIRGE FOR THE XIII. DEC. MDCCélu in My Book; also POEMS CHIEFLY PHILOSOPHICAL, pages 181, 208 and 285. OEHLENSCHLAEGER. "Ich that es wie die Biene Zellen Und wie der Vogel sich sein Nest erbaut." OEHLENSCHLAEGER, Correggio. As bees their célls build and as birds their nests, By nature, not by art thou madest thy verses: CARLSRUHE, April 16, 1856. IF I hadn't thee to love I would love something else, To love, in itself is so lovely; And if that something failed me I 'd still something love, But I'd never love any thing as I love thée, So stay with me thou and don't leave me. CARLSRUHE, May 19, 1856. INSCRIPTION FOR THE FRONT OF THE PEDESTAL OF A LATELY DECEASED POET'S STATUE. In this marble behold him, the wise and the good, INSCRIPTION FOR THE BACK OF THE SAME. BECAUSE I was wiser and better than they, CARLSRUHE, March 22, 1856. IN A LADY'S ALBUM. The author's volume 's a monarchie state; CARLSRUHE, April 4, 1856. Written on the margin of a leaf of Goethe's Faust. Ere Mephistopheles thou took’st in hand, “How lovely these flowers, and how sweet the birds sing!” Thus said to me once Eleanore, Myself and my sweet Eleanore: - “Where, where are the flowers ? and what birds do you mean?” , " But she blushed, my own sweet Eleanore, For then for the first time she saw I didn't mind Birds or flowers when beside Eleanore. CARLSRUHE, May 20, 1856. BELIEVE him not, no matter how he swears; . CARLSRUHE, May 18, 1856. TO SELINA. The months that with them violets bring, all year. CARLSRUHE, May 13, 1856. OH, the pink of all mill'ners is sweet Poesý! Purple velvets, blond laces, silks green, red and blue From her own fancy's lóom all, all sparkling and new? CARLSRUHE, May 15, 1856. |