Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANNO 1839, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: Dear distant germany, how often Last Line: My tender verses there I wove. Subject(s): Germany; Germans | ||||||||
DEAR distant Germany, how often I weep when I remember thee! Gay France my sorrow cannot soften, Her merry race gives pain to me. In Paris, in this witty region, 'Tis cold dry reason that now reigns; O bells of folly and religion, How sweetly sound at home your strains! Courteous the men! Their salutation I yet return with feelings sad; The rudeness shown in every station In my own country made me glad! Smiling the women! but their clatter, Like millwheels, never seems to cease; The Germans (not to mince the matter) Prefer I, who lie down in peace. And all things here with restless passion Keep whirling, like some madden'd dream; With us, they move in jog-trot fashion, And well-nigh void of motion seem. Methinks I hear the distant ringing Of the soft bugle's notes serene; The watchman's songs I hear them singing, With Philomel's sweet strains between. At home the bard, a happy vagrant In Schilda's oak woods loved to rove; From moonbeams fair and violets fragrant My tender verses there I wove. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GERMAN REQUIEM by JAMES FENTON THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET by ALBERT GORTON GREENE THE BOOK OF YOLEK by ANTHONY HECHT MEN AND BOYS by KARL THEODORE KORNER BINGEN ON THE RHINE by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON KATHE KOLLWITZ by MURIEL RUKEYSER TO GERMANY by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY |
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