Love
The Return Home, 64
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
He who for the first time loveth,
Though ’tis hopeless, is a God;
But the man who hopeless loveth
For the second time’s--a fool.
I, a fool like this, am loving
Once more, with no love responsive;
Sun and moon and stars are laughing,
I, too, join the laugh and--die.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 64.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/418/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 64.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/418/.
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