Love
New Spring, 34
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Spring
Love
Thy letter, sent to prove me,
Inflicts no sense of wrong;
No longer wilt thou love me,--
Thy letter, though, is long.
Twelve sides, to tell thy views all!
A manuscript, in fact!
In giving a refusal
Far otherwise we act.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 34.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/344/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 34.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/344/.
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