Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 19
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
I’ll not be angry, though my heart should break,
Evermore lost one! no complaint I’ll make.
Though thou may’st sparkle ’neath thy diamonds bright,
No ray can pierce thy heart’s unceasing night.
I’ve known it long. In vision saw I thee,
How night thy heart doth fill unceasingly,
And how the serpent at thy heart doth gnaw,--
How wretched, love, thou art, too well I saw.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 19.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/110/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 19.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/110/.
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