Living

Helena

by Heinrich Heine 1797–1856

Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Miscellanies

Living

Thou hast call’d me forth from out of the grave
By means of thy magic will now,
And fill’d me full of love’s fierce glow--
This glow thou never canst still now.

O press thy mouth against my mouth,
Man’s breath with heaven is scented;
Thy very soul I’ll drain to the dregs,
The dead are never contented.

MLA

Heine, Heinrich. “Helena.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/283/.

Chicago

Heine, Heinrich. “Helena.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/283/.

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