Love
The Return Home, 50
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
Child! it would be thy perdition,
And the greatest pains I’ve taken
Ne’er within thy fond heart tow’rd me
Loving feelings to awaken.
Now that I’ve so soon succeeded,
To my vow I’m wellnigh faithless,
And this thought steals o’er me often:
Would that thou could’st love me nathless.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 50.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/404/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 50.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/404/.
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