Love
The Return Home, 36
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
And when I to you my grief did confide,
You only yawn’d, and nothing replied;
But when I reduced my sorrow to rhyme,
You praised me greatly, and call’d it sublime.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 36.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/390/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 36.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/390/.
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