Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 43
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
A youth once loved a maiden,
Who loved another instead;
The other himself loved another,
And with the latter did wed.
The maiden, in scornful anger,
Straight married the first of the men
Who happened to come across her,--
The youth was heart-broken then.
’Tis only an old, old story,
And yet it ever seems new;
The heart of him whom it pictures
Will soon be broken in two.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 43.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/134/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 43.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/134/.
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