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Wilibald Alexis: “Fredericus Rex”

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Johann Gottfried von Herder: “The Erl-King’s Daughter”

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Ernst Moritz Arndt: “The German Song”

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Heinrich Heine: “Two Brothers”

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Nikolaus Lenau: “The Three Gipsies”

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Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz: “William Tell”

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Georg Herwegh: “Rhenish Wine Song”

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Ernst Moritz Arndt: “The Solace of Tears”

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Friedrich von Schiller:  “The Commencement of the Nineteenth Century”

Translated by C. Hermann Merivale

riago77c240ff9e4, February 14, 2026. No Comments on Friedrich von Schiller:  “The Commencement of the Nineteenth Century”. Category: Friedrich von Schiller, German Poetry, Songs From Wars Of Liberation.

Luise von Ploennies: “Is It Rapture — Is It Woe?”

riago77c240ff9e4, February 11, 2026. No Comments on Luise von Ploennies: “Is It Rapture — Is It Woe?”. Category: German Poetry, Luise von Ploennies.

Heinrich Heine: “I Dreamed”

Heinrich Heine

1797 – 1846

riago77c240ff9e4, February 7, 2026. No Comments on Heinrich Heine: “I Dreamed”. Category: German Poetry, Heinrich Heine.

Johann Gabriel Seidl: “The Snow-Bride”

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Wilhelm Hauff: “The Sentinel”

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Friedrich Halm: “My Heart”

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Ludwig Achim von Arnim/Clemens Brentano: “The Tailor In Hell”

Illustration from 19th century.

Ludwig Achim von Arnin and Clemens Brentano

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Maximillian von Schenkendorf: “The Soldier’s Morning Song”

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August von Platen-Hallermünde: “Would I Were Free As Are My Dreams”

Translator:  Percy MacKaye

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Georg Herwegh: “The Stirrup Cup”

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Robert Hamerling: “My Native Land So Mighty”

Hermann Monument in the Teutoburg Forest

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Nikolaus Lenau: “Two Kinds of Birds”

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