Love
Songs of Love, 11
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Early Poems: Songs of Love
Love
You, loved one, assured me so strongly,
I wellnigh fancied it true;
That you asserted it was so,
Was no sign of folly in you.
But that I almost believed it,
’Tis this that I so rue.
Cite this poem
MLA
Heine, Heinrich. “Songs of Love, 11.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/10/.
Chicago
Heine, Heinrich. “Songs of Love, 11.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/10/.
Read this poem with the Codex →