Love
Emma, 5
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Emma
Love
When I’m with thee, strife and need!
So I on my travels started;
Yet my life, when from thee parted,
Is no life, but death indeed.
Pondering all the livelong night,
I ’twixt death and hell lay choosing--
Ah, methinks this strife confusing
Now has driv’n me mad outright!
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Heine, Heinrich. “Emma, 5.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/224/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Emma, 5.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/224/.
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