Pictures of Travel

Heinrich Heine

Translated by Charles Godfrey Leland

259 chapters · about 13 h

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The opening

1.

(1823 — 1824.)

Trivial half-way joys we hate, Hate all childish fancies. If no crime weigh down the soul, Why should we endure control And groan in death-like trances? The puling wight looks down and sighs. But the brave man lifts his eyes Up to Heaven’s bright glances.

IMMERMAN.

Through a Hfe too dark and dreary Once gleamed an image bright; That lovely form hath vanished, And I am lost in night.

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About this edition

The words
Charles Godfrey Leland's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • A library speck on the scan's first leaf (“I^B”)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 6 places
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 2 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
  • The closing line “END OF THE PICTURES OF TRAVEL.”
  • The University of California, Berkeley library's date-due slip, stamps and barcode (42 blocks)
  • Printer's signature mark at the foot of the page (62 blocks)
  • A speck at the edge of the scanned page (read as “i”) (2 blocks)
  • A speck at the edge of the scanned page (read as “f”)
  • A speck at the edge of the scanned page (read as “^”)
  • Printed ornaments and dividers, in 2 places
  • A mark in the page margin beside poem 10, read as “- -^'”
  • A speck above poem 20 of A New Spring (read as “i”)