Nature
Celebration of Spring
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Romances
O list to this spring time’s terrible jest!
In savage troops the maidens fair
Are rushing along with fluttering hair,
And howls of anguish and naked breast:--
Adonis! Adonis!
The night falls fast. By torchlight clear
They sadly explore each forest track,
Which mournful answers is echoing back
Of laughter, sobs, sighs, and cries of fear:--
Adonis! Adonis!
That youthful figure, so wondrous fair,
Now lies on the ground all pale and dead;
His blood has dyed each floweret red,
And mournful sighs resound through the air:--
Adonis! Adonis!
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Heine, Heinrich. “Celebration of Spring.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/253/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Celebration of Spring.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/253/.
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