Love
The Return Home, 86
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
On the strange roads night is lying,
Heart is sick and limbs are weary;
But the moonbeams, softly vying,
Shed their light like blessings cheery.
Ah, sweet moon! thy radiant splendour
Scares away each terror nightly;
All my woes dissolve, and tender
Dew o’erflows my eyelids lightly.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 86.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/440/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 86.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/440/.
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