Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 18
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
Gleams my love in beauty’s splendour,
Like the child of ocean foam;
As his bride my mistress tender
Is a stranger taking home.
Though ’tis treason, don’t abuse it,
Heart, thou much-enduring one!
Bear it, bear it, and excuse it,
What the beauteous fool hath done.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 18.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/109/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 18.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/109/.
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