Heimburg A Tale

Author : William Richards Jr.
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267303816
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Heimburg, a Tale written by William Richards Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Heimburg, a Tale: And Other Poems Each particular castle is the theme of some wild and wondrous tradition; Of every town and hamlet some tale of love or chivalry is told. But the reader of a legend cannot duly appreciate it. It is when standing within the deserted halls, where once rang the sounds of gaiety and mirth, - when gazing upon the scene which speaks Of splendour and magnificence gone by, that we most love to let our thoughts wander far, far back, and linger as in a dream around the past - then, as the tale falls from the lips Of the uneducated shepherd or lowly peasant, in all the original simplicity with which it has been handed down from generation to generation, while pointing to the crumbling pile he tells Of the hand that reared it, Of the people who defended it, of the crime that destroyed it, - our hearts confess to emotions elsewhere unknown. Of the poems translated from the German introduced in the follow ing pages, I have lately heard that some have already appeared in English. My only wonder is that this has not long since been the case with the whole of Uhland's works without possessing the power Of Schiller and Goethe, or the imagination of Hauff, the style Of Uhland has a delicacy to which the former cannot always lay claim. As I have never seen any of these translations, I have not withheld my own version from this small volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.