Ernst Moritz Arndt

  • Anonymous translation from the German

    GOD, who gave iron, purposed ne’er
        That man should be a slave:
    Therefore the sabre, sword, and spear
        In his right hand He gave.
    Therefore He gave him fiery mood,
        Fierce speech, and free-born breath...

  • Anonymous translation from the German

    WHAT is the German’s fatherland?
    Is it Prussia, or the Swabian’s land?
    Is it where the grape glows on the Rhine?
    Where sea-gulls skim the Baltic’s brine?
          Oh no! more grand
      Must be the German’s...

  • [553]
    Klage um Auerswald und Lichnowsky.
     1848.

         Hast du noch Lebensodem,
    O Erde grün und...

  • [539] Der Weihnachtsbaum.

    Steht er da der Weihnachtsbaum
    Wie ein bunter goldner Traum,
    Spiegelt...

  •      Brauset, Winde! schäume Meer!
    Mir im Herzen braust es mehr;
    Schlage, Unglückswetter, ein!
    Muth will trotzig oben sein.

    5      Schwillt die Fluth ins Himmelshaus,
    Keine Anker wirft er aus;
    Schmettern Blitze höllentief,
    Blickt sein freies Aug...