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Aarberg abbot altar Altenahr Andernach Andvari appeared architect bade Balmung beautiful began bell beloved bishop brave brother Brunhild castle cathedral chapel Charlemagne church Cologne convent cried cross daughter dead death declared devil door duly emperor entered exclaimed eyes Ezzo fain fair faithful father fear fell Flörsheim forest Frederick Barbarossa gate gazed gnome gold Guntram hand hastened heard heart Heinzelmännchen holy honor Hreidmar immediately implored king Kriemhild lady later legend Lohengrin Loki lord Lorelei lover maiden Mainz marriage married master midnight monastery morrow Moselle never Nibelungenlied Odin once passed pilgrim poor prayer priest promised remained returned Rhine ring river robber knight rock rode ruins rushed Satan Siegfried soon soul spite spot Stavoren steed stone suddenly summoned sword Tannhäuser Toggenburg told tomb tower town vainly vanished vowed watched wife Wind wine woman Worms Cathedral young youth
Popular passages
Page 335 - Adieu to thee, fair Rhine ! How long delighted The stranger fain would linger on his way ! Thine is a scene alike where souls united Or lonely contemplation thus might stray : And could the ceaseless vultures cease to prey On self-condemning bosoms, it were here, ,,,. • Where nature, nor too sombre nor too gay, Wild but not rude, awful yet not austere, Is to the mellow earth as autumn to the year.
Page 157 - By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound; Beneath its base are heroes...
Page 233 - And in at the windows and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go.
Page 336 - The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen. The rolling stream, the precipice's gloom, The forest's growth, and Gothic walls between, The wild rocks shaped as they had turrets been In mockery of man's art...
Page 309 - To heathen gods, in their excessive zeal. The Knight was called and questioned ; in reply Did not confess the fact, did not deny; Treated the matter as a pleasant jest, And set at naught the Syndic and the rest, Maintaining in an angry undertone, That he should do what pleased him with his own. And thereupon the Syndic gravely read The proclamation of the King; then said : " Pride goeth forth on horseback grand and gay, But cometh back on foot, and begs its way ; Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds,...
Page 309 - Church-bells at best but ring us to the door ; But go not in to mass ; my bell doth more : It cometh into court and pleads the cause Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws ; And this shall make, in every Christian clime, The Bell of Atri famous for all time.
Page 233 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls helter-skelter they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once at the Bishop they go.
Page 336 - Tis with the thankful glance of parting praise; More mighty spots may rise, more glaring shine, But none unite in one attaching maze The brilliant, fair, and soft, — the glories of old days.
Page 309 - Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, Of flowers of chivalry, and not of weeds ! These are familiar proverbs ; but I fear They never yet have reached your knightly ear. What fair renown, what honor, what repute, Can come to you from starving this poor brute ? He who serves well, and speaks not, merits more Than they who clamor loudest at the door. Therefore the law decrees that as this steed Served you in youth, henceforth you shall take heed To comfort his old age, and to provide The knight withdrew...
Page 15 - The suffering son and his mother In their little bed-chamber slept; Then the Mother of God came softly, And close to the sleepers crept She bent down over the sick one, And softly her hand did lay On his heart, with a smile so tender, And presently vanished away.