Love
The Return Home, 35
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
They loved each other, but neither
Would be the first to confess;
Like foes, they gaz’d at each other,
And would die of their love’s distress.
They parted at length, and thereafter,
Except in vision, ne’er met;
From life they long have departed,
And scarcely know of it yet.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 35.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/389/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 35.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/389/.
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