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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 24, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: O why have the roses lost their hue
Last Line: O wherefore leavest thou me?
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses
First Line: O why have the roses lost their hue
Last Line: O wherefore leavest thou me?
Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses
OWHY have the roses lost their hue,
Sweet love, O tell me why?
Why mutely thus do the violets blue
In the verdant meadows sigh?
O why doth the lark up high in the air
With a voice so mournful sing?
O why doth each fragrant floweret fair
Exhale like a poisonous thing?
O wherefore looks the sun to-day
On the fields, so full of gloom?
O why doth the earth appear so grey,
And dreary as a tomb?
Why feel I myself so mournful and weak, --
Sweet love, I put it to thee?
My own sweet darling, sweet love, O speak, --
O wherefore leavest thou me?
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