Love
The Return Home, 49
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
A flow’ret thou resemblest,
So pure and fair and blest;
But when I view thee, sorrow
Straight creepeth to my breast.
I feel as though inspired
My hands on thy head to lay,
And pray that God may keep thee
So blest, fair, pure, for aye.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 49.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/403/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 49.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/403/.
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