Living
A Parody
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Early Poems: Miscellaneous Poems
Indeed they have wearied me greatly,
And made me exceedingly sad,
One half with their prose so wretched,
The other with poetry bad.
Their terrible discord has scatter’d
What little senses I had,
One half with their prose so wretched,
The other with poetry bad.
But ’mongst the whole army of scribblers,
They most have stirr’d up my bile,
Who write in neither prosaic
Nor true poetical style.
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Heine, Heinrich. “A Parody.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/22/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “A Parody.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/22/.
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