Love
New Spring, 4
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Spring
Which flower I love, I cannot discover;
This grief doth impart.
In every calix I search like a lover,
And seek a heart.
The flowers smell sweet in the sun’s setting splendour,
The nightingale sings.
I seek for a heart that like my heart is tender,
And like it springs.
The nightingale sings; his sweet song, void of gladness,
Comes home to my breast;
We’re both so oppress’d and heavy with sadness,
So sad and oppress’d.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 4.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/314/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 4.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/314/.
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