This poem was adapted from a ballad written by Clemens Brentano, and was first set to music by Friedrich Silcher in a song so popular that it created a misconception about the origin of this poem's title character. This poem is set near "the crest of [a] mountain" "gleaming / in fading rays of sunshine." The speaker of this poem "cannot determine the meaning / of sorrow that fills [his] breast" but does know that a story he has heard "allows [his] mind no rest." The title character of this poem is introduced wearing glistening jewelry and using a gilded comb. This poem features the death of a man who "has no eye for the jagged cliff" and "by and by" will be devoured by the waves. For 10 points, name this German poem
This poem was adapted from a ballad written by Clemens Brentano, and was first set to music by Friedrich Silcher in a song so popular that it created a misconception about the origin of this poem's title character. This poem is set near "the crest of [a] mountain" "gleaming / in fading rays of sunshine." The speaker of this poem "cannot determine the meaning / of sorrow that fills [his] breast" but does know that a story he has heard "allows [his] mind no rest." The title character of this poem is introduced wearing glistening jewelry and using a gilded comb. This poem features the death of a man who "has no eye for the jagged cliff" and "by and by" will be devoured by the waves. For 10 points, name this German poem about a golden-haired siren by the Rhine river, by Heinrich Heine.