Living
Helena
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.
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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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