Love
Say, where is the maiden sweet
Translated by James Thomson (B.V.) (1880) · From Attempts at Translation from Heine (1880)
" Say, where is the maiden sweet,
Whom you once so sweetly sung,
When the flames of mighty heat
Filled your heart and fired your tongue ? "
Ah, those flames no longer burn ;
Cold and drear the heart that fed j
And this book is but the urn
Of the ashes of love dead.
Codex Note
Untitled in the volume; the first line is used as the title.
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MLA
Heine, Heinrich. “Say, where is the maiden sweet.” Translated by James Thomson (B.V.). Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/596/.
Chicago
Heine, Heinrich. “Say, where is the maiden sweet.” Translated by James Thomson (B.V.). Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/596/.
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