Love
Seraphina, 10
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Seraphina
Love
The maid stood by the ocean,
And long and deep sigh’d she
With heartfelt sad emotion,
The setting sun to see.
Sweet maiden, why this fretting?
An olden trick is here;
Although before us setting,
He rises in our rear.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Seraphina, 10.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/177/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Seraphina, 10.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/177/.
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