Love
The Return Home, 73
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
O what falsehood lies in kisses!
In mere show what joy’s convey’d!
In betrayal, O what bliss is!
Sweeter still to be betray’d!
Though thou mayst resist me, fairest,
Yet I know what thou allowest;
I’ll avow whate’er thou swearest,
I will swear what thou avowest.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 73.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/427/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 73.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/427/.
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