Love
Songs of Creation, 3
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Songs of Creation
Love
I made for my glory and edification
Men, lions, and oxen, and sunlight splendid;
But calves, cats, monkeys, and each constellation
For nought but my own delight I intended.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Songs of Creation, 3.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/240/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Songs of Creation, 3.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/240/.
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