Identifier: libraryofworldsbv18warn (find matches)
Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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e, my heart will I resign. Ill live and die a maiden, and end as I began, Nor (let what else befall me) will suffer woe for man.* ^Nay,* said her anxious mother, <(renounce not marriage so;Wouldst thou true heartfelt pleasure taste ever here below,Mans love alone can give it. Thourt fair as eye can see:A fitting mate God send thee, and naught will wanting be.* <(No more,* the maiden answered, <(no more, dear mother, say:From many a womans fortune this truth is clear as day,That falsely smiling Pleasure with Pain requites us ever.I from both will keep me, and thus will sorrow never.* So in her lofty virtues, fancy-free and gay, Lived the noble maiden many a happy day, Nor one more than another found favor in her sight; Still at the last she wedded a far-renowned knight. He was the selfsame falcon she in her dream had seen,Foretold by her wise mother. What vengeance took the queenOn her nearest kinsmen who him to death had done!That single death atoning died many a mothers son.
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SIEGFRIED AND KRIEMHILDFrom a Painting by Jit/ins von Schnorr THE NIBELUNGENLIED Siegfried 10637 In Netherland then flourished a prince of lofty kind(Whose father was called Siegmund, his mother Siegelind),In a sumptuous castle down by the Rhines fair side;Men did call it Xanten: twas famous far and wide. I tell you of this warrior, how fair he was to see;From shame and from dishonor lived he ever free.Forthwith fierce and famous waxed the mighty man.Ah! what height of worship in this world he wan! Siegfried men did call him, that same champion good;Many a kingdom sought he in his manly mood,And through strength of body in many a land rode he.Ah! what men of valor he found in Burgundy! Before this noble champion grew up to mans estate,His hand had mighty wonders achieved in wars debate,Whereof the voice of rumor will ever sing and say,Though much must pass in silence in this our later day. In his freshest season, in his youthful days,One might full many a marvel tell in Siegfrieds pra

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