Love
The Return Home, 60
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
Too fragmentary is World and Life;
I’ll go to the German professor, who’s rife
With schemes for putting Life’s pieces together,
Whereby a passable System’s unfurl’d;
Ragged nightcaps and dressing-gowns keep out the weather,
Stop the gaps in the edifice crack’d of the world.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 60.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/414/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 60.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/414/.
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