Love
The Return Home, 20
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
Once more my steps through the olden path
And the well-known streets are taken,
Until I come to my loved one’s house,
So empty now and forsaken.
How narrow and close the streets appear!
How nauseous the smell of the plaster!
The houses seem tumbling down on my head,
So I haste away, fearing disaster.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 20.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/374/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 20.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/374/.
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