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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WOUNDED KNIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a story of anguish
Last Line: Accusing bosom must turn.
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Suicide; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy
First Line: I know a story of anguish
Last Line: Accusing bosom must turn.
Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Suicide; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy
I KNOW a story of anguish,
A tale of the times of old;
A knight with love doth languish,
His mistress is faithless and cold.
As faithless must he esteem now
Her whom in his heart he adored;
His loving pangs must he deem now
Disgraceful and abhorr'd.
In vain in the lists would he wander,
And challenge to battle each knight;
"Let him who my mistress dares slander
"Make ready at once for the fight!"
But all are silent, save only
His grief, that so fiercely doth burn;
His lance he against his own lonely
Accusing bosom must turn.
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