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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO MY MOTHER, B. HEINE, NEE VON GELDERN: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been wont to bear my head right high
Last Line: Which loved me, more than all things else, the best.
Variant Title(s): Submission
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: I have been wont to bear my head right high
Last Line: Which loved me, more than all things else, the best.
Variant Title(s): Submission
Subject(s): Mothers
I HAVE been wont to bear my head right high,
My temper too is somewhat stern and rough;
Even before a monarch's cold rebuff
I would not timidly avert mine eye.
Yet, mother dear, I'll tell it openly:
Much as my haughty pride may swell and puff,
I feel submissive and subdued enough,
When thy much-cherished, darling form is nigh.
Is it thy spirit that subdues me then,
Thy spirit, grasping all things in its ken,
And soaring to the light of heaven again?
By the sad recollection I'm oppress'd
That I have done so much that grieved thy breast,
Which loved me, more than all things else, the best.
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