Love
The Return Home, 88
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
“Say, where is thy beauteous mistress,
“Whom thou sangest in the hour
“When thy heart was pierced so strangely
“By the flames of magic power?”
All those flames are now extinguish’d,
And my heart is cold and weary,
And this book’s the urn that holdeth
My love’s ashes sad and dreary.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 88.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/442/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 88.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/442/.
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