Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEW SPRING: 20, by HEINRICH HEINE


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First Line: The rose is fragrant -- yet if she divineth
Last Line: Would still be useful, we may well suppose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Truth


THE rose is fragrant -- yet if she divineth
Her own sweet fragrance, if the nightingale
Herself feels what round man's soul softly twineth,
When echoes her sweet song across the vale, --

I cannot tell. Yet man is with vexation
Oft fill'd by truth. If nightingale and rose
The feeling only feign'd, the fabrication
Would still be useful, we may well suppose.





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