Love
The Return Home, 89
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
Full long have I my head tormented
With ceaseless thinking, day and night;
And yet thy darling eyes compel me
To love thee, in my own despite.
Now stand I, where thine eyes are gleaming,
Charm’d by their sweet expressive light;
That I should love again thus deeply
I scarcely can believe aright.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 89.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/443/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 89.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/443/.
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