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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HELENA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou hast call'd me forth from out of the grave
Last Line: The dead are never contented.
Subject(s): Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: Thou hast call'd me forth from out of the grave
Last Line: The dead are never contented.
Subject(s): Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones
THOU hast call'd me forth from out of the grave
By means of thy magic will now,
And fill'd me full of love's fierce glow --
This glow thou never canst still now.
O press thy mouth against my mouth,
Man's breath with heaven is scented;
Thy very soul I'll drain to the dregs,
The dead are never contented.
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