Ferdinand Freiligrath

Ferdinand Freiligrath was born at Detmold. He first made his name with vivid poems on exotic subjects, later became a political poet of 1848, and lived in exile in London for many years.

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) translated this poet in his German Anthology (1845); the poems here are his English versions, as reprinted in Poems, ed. John Mitchel (New York, 1859).