Love
The Return Home, 69
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
From beauteous lips compell’d to part, and carried
Away from beauteous arms fast clasp’d around me,
Yet one more day I gladly would have tarried,
When came the post-boy with his steeds, and found me.
Child, this is very life, an endless wailing,
An endless farewell-taking, endless parting;
Is then thy heart to clasp mine unavailing?
Could not thine eye retain me, e’en at starting?
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 69.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/423/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 69.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/423/.
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