Love
New Spring, 41
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Spring
Love
Like an old man’s face confounded
Is the sky so broad and airy,
Red, one-eyed, and close surrounded
By the grey clouds’ locks all hairy
When upon the earth it gazes,
Flower and bud grow pale and sickly;
Love and song in all their phases
Fade away from men’s minds quickly.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 41.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/351/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “New Spring, 41.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/351/.
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