Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 39
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
My little songs do I utter
From out of my great, great sorrow;
Some tinkling pinions they borrow,
And tow’rd her bosom they flutter.
They found it, and over it hover’d,
But soon return’d they, complaining,
And yet to tell me disdaining
What they in her bosom discover’d.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 39.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/130/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 39.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/130/.
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