Love
The Return Home, 21
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
Once more through the halls I pass’d
Where her troth to me was plighted;
On the spot where her tears fell fast
A serpent’s brood had alighted.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 21.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/375/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 21.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/375/.
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