Death & Dying
Where?
Translated by James Thomson (B.V.) (1880) · From Attempts at Translation from Heine (1880)
Where shall once the wanderer weary
Meet his resting-place and shrine ?
Under palm-trees by the Ganges ?
Under lindens of the Rhine ?
Shall I somewhere in the desert
Owe my grave to stranger hands ?
Or upon some lonely sea-shore
Rest at last beneath the sands ?
Ever onward ! God's wide heaven
Must surround me there as here ;
And like death-lamps o'er me swinging
Night by night the stars burn clear.
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MLA
Heine, Heinrich. “Where?” Translated by James Thomson (B.V.). Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/604/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Where?” Translated by James Thomson (B.V.). Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/604/.
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