The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-06-16

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One Of the mos: interesting features
OF the programme vas the essay on
Heinrich Heine." by Miss Emma Roy
mann. the accomplished daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton -Rcymann, Of this
city. and who is c member of the grad
uatins class. Her essay in full is as
follows:
+ Out In the highways and hedges the
critics OF today search to find Il poet
and compel him to come In. There was
n time when the poet came uncal!cd,
but that IS past. A single nation will
probably never again boast OF contem-
porar% poetical and intellectual lights
to be compared with Goethe. Schiller
klelst. Wlhkelmann and Heine. There
Is In every Germans heart an Unborn
love Of the Fatheriand. of music and Of
poetry. Even the most illiterate Ger
man has an inherens love of music. md
Tannhauser and LohenSrln, Wallen-
stein and Faust. ircomprehensible as
they seem to most of US. are listened
to In Germany by thousands upon thou
sands with bated breath and hush of
awe. In this century the German poo
pie are the most poetic in Europe. but
For many years there were unnppeased
yearnings throughout Germany, for the
sons that loving. patriotic and relie-
ious hear needs in grief and as SUI
ilcicnt expression of JOY in the hour of
Its triumph. Helne must always hold
his place as a poet His poems have
become as deeply !mbedded In the heart
of the German nation as are the groves
Of coral in Indian seas"
AT Berlin, which was the center Of
the keenest intellectual life of Ger
many Heinc became intimate with sew
eral of the foremost Intellectual gen.
fuses of his country. Such surround
ingS were favorable for his mental de-.
velopment, and within two years he
published his youthful Sorrows" To
his great disappointment this work was
received with Indifference by the gen.
eral public With the publication OF his
"Reise Bilder" Hcine was for the first
time recognized by his countrymcn, and
his name was known from the Pregc
to the Rhein and mentioned with the
highest praise. Heine's prose has the
same strange moodiness and variable !.
lily as his poetry. Everything ne wrote
bears the stamp of his own wild genius.
The REESE Bilder' is prose and poetry
combined giving striking impressions
of his travel and his reflections thereon
but vein Of satire and bitterness runs
throughout the whole work. and there
with cynical laughter that laughed ut
Itself and would fain have sobbed were
1t not that Sobs would have opened the
ilood-gates of tears" OF all these
"Reise Bidder" HartZ REESE and Nor
denny are the finest. In Nordenay we
see the authors !ongin. for the sen,
with its tosslnSs meanings and roar
ings. BY the sea side. as he listens to
the murmurings Of the waves he likens
his soul to the endless waters, and says
"a beautiful world lies therein. 1t rests
In the obscurity Of the deep, but occa-
sionally heavenly spark illumines the
surface" rs
On the grand wave OF general favor
the poet was again carried back to Ber-
lin. anxious to triumph where he had
seemed to fail. Here he published his
famous "Buch der Lleder." These
poems even exceeded his REESE Bllder"
In popularity, and they are the sweetest
Of all German songs. His songs are
all music and feeling" says George Ell
lot: they are like birds that not only
cnchant us with their delicious notes
but nestle against US with their soft
breasts and make lis feel the aEitated
beating OF their hearts" In the Min
Messenger Heinc gives us his own poet
ical bias:
"Phantasie die schncumand wilde,
ISt dcs M!nnesacngcrs Pferd
Und the Kunst dent hm yum Schilde
Und das Wort das list scin Schwert."
The "Buch der L!cdcr" plenses all
sorts of people. despite Its rndlcalism.
its soothing and skcptical spirit. For
simplicity and suggest!venesS 1t Is re-
markable. These songs touch and thrill
us like the carol OF the lark or the per-
fume Of the first violet Behind an
airy lightness the deepest import Is con-
cealed, delicate touch revealing the
master hand None can read his fas-
cinatIng Lyrical 1ntcrludc" without
acknowledging that no such singer
had ever before 40 charmed the Ger
man ear" In fact. this collection might
be called the wood OF love. the dawn.
the noon. the decline OF loves day. amid
the song Of birds and the erst Joyous
and then sad and ominous voices OF the
winds among the trecs-all are here"
These gems are mcmo:ized and sung
throughout ali Germany. Not only
throughout Germany. but wherever we
find lovers OF harmony and exquisite
beauty, for they have been set to music
80 expressive that man will never let
them die ION rosy wings of music, my
darling. | ily with thee" This darling
might have reference to the Lyrical
Interludc." for these charming ballads
have truly been waited to every cline
on the wings Of music" Can amy one
imagine n love song more perfect In Its
simplicity than:
I'm wundorschocncn Monnl Mai
Ais nile KnoapcT sprnngcr
Ia lst In moinnm licrzen o.
Die Licbe Gufgcgangcn.
Unless It we're
" oh, thou nrt like n flower
So fair and pure thou art