Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 13
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
Full lovingly thou must embrace me,
My mistress beauteous and sweet!
With pliant form interlace me,
And with thine arms and thy feet.
The fairest of snakes e’er created
With vigour encircles anon,
And clasps and twines round the elated
And happy Laocoon.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 13.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/104/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 13.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/104/.
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