Love
Yolante and Mary, 5
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Yolante and Mary
Love
This tricolour’d flow’r now worn is
In my breast, to show I’m free,
Proving that my heart freeborn is,
And a foe to slavery.
Sweet Queen Mary, who thy quarters
In my heart hast fix’d, pray list:
Many of earth’s fairest daughters
There have reign’d, then been dismiss’d.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Yolante and Mary, 5.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/219/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Yolante and Mary, 5.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/219/.
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