Phrenzied passion not that it gradually decayed and subsided into apathy, butĭeath snatched away his blooming victim, and left Walter to a widowed couch. That would arrest the decrees of destiny! as well might it seek to divert theĬircling planets from their eternal course. Their sole apprehension was lest aught should awaken them from aĭelirium which they prayed might continue for ever. Rendered them reckless of aught besides, while it lulled them in a fascinatingĭream. Brunhilda became the wife of Walter, and both being equally enamouredĪnd devoted, they abandoned themselves to the enjoyment of a passion that Nether world, and which, while they enlighten, kindle the sons of earth to joy and but rather as the sober beams which cheer this Glow gems the vault of night, and whose immeasurable distance fills the soul Of the western heaven her eyes did not resemble those burning orbs whose pale Slender form, and the rich dye of a cheek whose tint was deep and brilliant as that Over her shoulders, set off to the utmost advantage the beaming lustre of her Loveliness all her rivals for her tresses, dark as the raven face of night, streaming Smitten with the charms of the fair Brunhilda, a beauty far surpassing in Walter was a powerful lord in Burgundy, who, in his earliest youth, had been Sends his legions of monsters through mid-air so that their shadows, as they flitīeneath the moon and across the earth, dart as wild, agitating thoughts that chaseĮach other o'er the sinner's bosom: - thus did he lament under the tall linden treesīy her grave, while his head reclined on the cold stone. Midnight hour, what time the spirit that presides in the troublous atmosphere, Partner of his youthful passionate love thus did he bewail over her grave at the Such were the lamentations which Walter poured forth for his Brunhilda, the Return once again to this anxious disconsolate bosom." More welcome to thy arms than thy enamoured consort? Oh! return, my beloved, Say then, doth the paly shroud become thee better than the bridal veil? Is theĬhamber of the grave a warmer bed than the couch of love? Is the spectre death What!ĭumb? for ever dumb? Thy friend lamenteth, and thou heedest him not? He shedsīitter, scalding tears, and thou reposest unregarding his affliction? He is inĭespair, and thou no longer openest thy arms to him as an asylum from his grief? Return! and bring back with thee the vivifying dawn of hope to one whoseĮxistence hath, since thy departure, been obscured by the dunnest shades. Henceforth repose for ever from thy short pilgrimage on earth? O yet once again "Wilt thou for ever sleep? Wilt thou never more awake, my beloved, but It is about a man who loves his dead wife so much he has a necromancer return her to life, only to discover she has become a vampire. It can be considered the first modern vampire romance. because Wake Not The Dead wasn’t translated into English until 1823. That honor goes to John Polidori’s The Vampyre, which you can also listen to hear on StoryLinkRadio Podcast. It is considered the first vampire story, although not the first English vampire story. Even this earliest stage, the vampire has become an erotic creature bound up with our deepest and darkest fantasies. All the classic traits we associate with vampires. But this is not a romance but a horror story and a cautionary tale so over time things change.Īlthough in the original German version Teick never actually calls her a vampire, she drinks blood, avoids sunlight, and possesses a power to hypnotize her victims. A necromancer brings her back to life, despite his warnings “Wake Not the Dead.” She is even more beautiful than before, and it seems at first to be everything he hoped for. Walter so loved his first wife and mourns her passing that even his new wife and family cannot ease his pain. This is considered the first vampire story, although not the first English vampire story.
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