Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 41, by HEINRICH HEINE


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 41, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blockheads, their holidays keeping
Last Line: And softens my bosom to tears.
Subject(s): Love; Nature; Sparrows; Tears


THE blockheads, their holidays keeping,
Are walking through forest and plain;
They shout, and like kittens are leaping,
And hail sweet Nature again.

They gaze, with glances that glisten,
On each romantic thing;
With ears like asses they listen
To hear the sparrows sing.

My chamber window to darken,
With black cloth I hang it by day;
To the signal my spirits straight hearken,
Day-visits they hasten to pay.

My olden love also draws nigh me,
From the realms of the dead she appears;
She, weeping, sits gently close by me,
And softens my bosom to tears.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net