Love

Diana, 2

by Heinrich Heine 1797–1856

Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Diana

Love

’Twas in the Bay of Biscay
That she first saw the light;
Two kittens in the cradle
She squeezed to death outright.

Across the Pyrenees she
With feet uncover’d ran;
Then for her size gigantic
Was shown at Perpignan.

She’s now the grandest dame in
The Faubourg Saint-Denis,
Where unto small Sir William
Some thousand pounds costs she.

MLA

Heine, Heinrich. “Diana, 2.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/196/.

Chicago

Heine, Heinrich. “Diana, 2.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/196/.

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