Love
New Spring, 35
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Spring
Love
Care not, if my love I’m telling
Unto all the world around,
When my mouth, thy beauty praising,
Full of metaphor is found.
Underneath a wood of flowers,
Lies in shelter safe below,
All that deep and glowing secret,
All that deep and secret glow.
If suspicious sparks should issue
From the roses,--fearless be!
This dull world in flames believes not,
But believes them poetry.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 35.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/345/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 35.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/345/.
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