The translators all approach it, but they all fail, in one place or another. You cannot punctuate the first line of your second stanza so in such a way as to make it rational. & A comma after “height” will not r do it, a comma after “entrancing” will not do it; a comma in both places would make prose of it. One knows what you mean by “melody, charm-beholden,” but the phrase does not itself convey a distinct meaning. There is a subtle, intangible something about the Lorelei which is as intangible as air, & as elusive as a fragrance; & no translator has quite capturesd that, & in my belief no translator ever will. It is the soul of the thing, the poetry. We all get at the facts & the music, without difficulty; but of that thing we get only the a good or bad counterfeit, we don’t seem to get the thing itself.