A Book of Verse
Written: prior to April 12, 1837
Source: Marx Engels Collected Works Vol 1, pg 683-685.
Publisher: International Publishers (1975)
First Published: Marx/Engels, Gesamtausgabe, Abt. 1, Hb. 2, 1929
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcribed: S. Ryan
of the year 1837
dedicated to my dear father
on the occasion of his birthday
as a feeble token of everlasting love
K. H. Marx, Berlin
Contents:
To My Father
The Magic Harp, A Ballad
Yearning. A Romance
Nocturnal Love. A Romance (note: also published as Wild Songs)
Siren Song, A Ballad
The Little Old Man of the Water. A Ballad
The First Elegy of Ovid's Tristia Freely Rendered
The Madwoman. A Ballad
Flower King. A Fantastic Ballad
The Awakening
Invocation of One in Despair
Lucinda, A Ballad
The Last Judgment. A Jest
Two Singers Accompanying Themselves on the Harp. A Ballad
Epigram on Hegel
Epigrams on the Germans and on Pustkuchen
On a Certain Bald-head
Harmony
Distraught, A Ballad
Human Pride
Oulanem. A Tragedy, Act I
Song to the Stars
The Song of a Sailor at Sea
The Pale Maiden, A Ballad
The Forest Spring
The Fiddler. A Ballad
Three Little Lights
The Abduction. A Ballad
Epigrams and Xenia
Sought
Found
Sonnet
Dialogue. A Ballad
Sea Rock
Man and Drum, A Fable
Evening Stroll
The Magic Ship. A Romance
The Man in the Moon
Night Thoughts, A Dithyramb
Dream Vision, A Dithyramb
Supplement
Some chapters from Scorpion and Felix. A Humoristic Novel.
(additional verses not included in this index, but are included in the CW)
TO MY FATHER
I
CREATION
Creator Spirit uncreated
Sails on fleet waves far away,
Worlds heave, Lives are generated,
His Eye spans Eternity.
All inspiriting reigns his Countenance,
In its burning magic, Forms condense.
Voids pulsate and Ages roll,
Deep in prayer before ...
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