Love
The Return Home, 26
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
Unhappy Atlas that I am! I’m doom’d
To bear a world, a very world of sorrows;
Unbearable’s the load I bear, and e’en
The heart within me’s breaking.
O thou proud heart! thy doing ’twas indeed,
Thou wouldst be happy, utterly be happy,
Or utterly be wretched, O proud heart,
And now in truth thou’rt wretched!
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 26.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/380/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 26.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/380/.
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