Love

New Spring, 16

by Heinrich Heine 1797–1856

Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Spring

Love

If thou hast good eyes, and look’st
In my songs, when thou hast tried them,
Thou wilt see a fair young maiden
Wandering up and down inside them.

If thou hast good ears as well,
Thou canst hear her voice quite clearly,
And her sighing, laughing, singing
Thy poor heart will madden nearly.

For she will, with look and word,
Thee, like me, make wellnigh crazy:
An enamour’d springtime-dreamer
Thou wilt tread the forest mazy.

MLA

Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 16.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/326/.

Chicago

Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 16.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/326/.

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