Living
Evening Songs, 3
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Early Poems: Miscellaneous Poems
Living
When in sorrow, they dare not show it,
However mournful their mood,
For the swan, like the soul of the poet,
By the dull world is ill understood.
And in their death-hour they waken
The air, and break into song;
And, unless my ears are mistaken,
They sing now, while sailing along.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Evening Songs, 3.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/26/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Evening Songs, 3.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/26/.
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