Love
Seraphina, 9
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Seraphina
Love
Shadowy love and shadowy kisses,
Shadowy life, how wondrous strange!
Fool, dost think, then, that all this is
Ever true and free from change?
Like an empty dream hath vanish’d
All we loved with love so deep;
Memory from the heart is banish’d,
And the eyes are closed in sleep.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Seraphina, 9.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/176/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Seraphina, 9.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/176/.
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