Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 68
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
Wheresoe’er I go, there darkles
Round me gloom and utter night,
Now that there no longer sparkles
On me, love, thine eyes’ sweet light.
Quench’d are all the golden blisses
That love’s star upon me smil’d;
’Neath my feet the dread abyss is,--
Night primeval, take thy child!
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 68.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/159/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 68.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/159/.
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