• [76] Robert Blum

    In der Brigittenau bei Wien wogt fahles, dürres Gras im Winde,
    Und wenn wir suchend niederknien und streichen es beiseit gelinde
    Mit düstrem Blick und bleichem Mund, in wehmutsvollem, weichem Mute,...

  • [140] Robert Blum.
    November 1848.

    „Ists wahr? ists möglich? klangs von Mund zu Munde!
    Wie konnte solche schlimme That geschehen?“
    So fragend Tausende betroffen stehen
    Als man von...

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    Creusez, jeune ouvrier... Dans la nuit souterraine
    Le vent du ciel apporte un parfum de printemps.
    L’air est bleu, l’air est frais, remontez vers la plaine ;
    Là, peut-être l’amour vous pleure dés longtemps.

    « Bientôt je reverrai la blonde Eléonore, »
    Se disait le pâle Robert ;
    Et dans ce vague espoir, il creuse, il creuse encore ;
    La roche...

  • Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane
    And Valmond, emperor of Allemaine,
    Apparelled in magnificent attire,
    With retinue of many a knight and squire,
    On Saint John’s eve, at vespers, proudly sat
    And heard the priests chant the Magnificat.
    And as he listened o’er and o’er again
    Repeated, like a burden or refrain,
    He caught the...

  • Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
      Near to the nest of his little dame,
    Over the mountain-side or mead,
      Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
        Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,
        Spink, spank, spink;
    Snug and safe is that nest of ours,
    Hidden among the summer flowers.
                    Chee, chee, chee.

    Robert of...

  • Great spirits now on earth are sojourning:
    He of the cloud, the cataract, the lake,
    Who on Helvellyn’s summit, wide awake,
    Catches his freshness from Archangel’s wing:
    He of the rose, the violet, the spring,
    The social smile, the chain for Freedom’s sake:
    And lo! whose steadfastness would never take
    A meaner sound than Raphael’s...