Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 22
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
Thou scarcely could’st have forgotten it faster,
That I of thine heart so long was the master;
Thine heart so false, so small, and so sweet,
A sweeter and falser I never shall meet.
Thou now hast forgotten the love and disaster
That made my heart throb all the faster;
I know not if love was the greatest, or woe;
That both were great, full well I know.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 22.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/113/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 22.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/113/.
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