Love
Songs of Love, 6
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Early Poems: Songs of Love
Love
When I am with my sweetheart kind,
A happy youth am I;
So great the wealth within my mind,
I the whole world could buy.
But when her swanlike arms I quit,
In that sad hour of pain,
Away my boasted wealth doth flit,
And I am poor again.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Songs of Love, 6.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/5/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Songs of Love, 6.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/5/.
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