Love
The Return Home, 58
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
A pair of sapphires are thine eyes,
So clear, so sweetly roving;
O three times happy is the man
Whom those fair eyes are loving.
Thy heart, it is a diamond,
A sparkling radiance throwing;
O three times happy is the man
For whom with love ’tis glowing.
Thy lips are very rubies bright,
One never can see fairer;
O three times happy is the man
Who of their love is sharer.
O did I know the happy man!
O could I unattended
Within the green wood meet with him,--
His luck would soon be ended!
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 58.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/412/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 58.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/412/.
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