What are the five sections of Heinrich Heine’s The Book of Songs?

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Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt. — Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.

Heinrich Heine’s collection of verse, The Book of Songs (Buch der Lieder), is organized into the following five sections or cycles:1

Junge Leiden (“Young Sorrows”)
Lyrisches Intermezzo (“Lyrical Intermezzo”)
Die Heimkehr (“Homecoming”)
Aus der Harzreise (“From the Harz Journey”)
Die Nordsee (“The North Sea”)

Published in 1827, this work features poetry characterized by bittersweet, self-ironic themes of unrequited love that both utilize and critique Romantic sensibilities.1