Friedrich Rückert

Friedrich Rückert was born at Schweinfurt and was both an orientalist and a poet. He made German versions of Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit poetry and wrote a large body of lyric verse of his own.

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).