The Bride of Corinth is the English title of the poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe titled Die Braut von Korinth in 1797. It tells of a Christian woman who was forced to become a nun to bar her from marrying her lover, who was a Greek pagan. Her grief drove her not only to death, but to become a vampire and stalk her lover every night.
From my grave to wander I am forced,
Still to seek the God's long-severed link,
Still to love the bridegroom I have lost,
And the life-blood of his heart to drink.
When his race is run,
I must hasten on,
And the young must 'neath my vengeance sink.
"Beauteous youth! no longer mayst thou live;
Here must shrivel up thy form so fair;
Did not I to thee a token give,
Taking in return this lock of hair?
View it to thy sorrow!
Grey thoult be to-morrow,
Only to grow brown again when there."
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