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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet love, lay thy hand on my heart, and tell
Last Line: That I some slumber at length may taste.
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The
First Line: Sweet love, lay thy hand on my heart, and tell
Last Line: That I some slumber at length may taste.
Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The
SWEET love, lay thy hand on my heart, and tell
If thou hearest the knocks in that narrow cell?
There dwells there a carpenter, cunning is he,
And slily he's hewing a coffin for me.
He hammers and knocks by day and by night,
My slumber already has banish'd outright;
Oh, Master Carpenter, prythee make haste,
That I some slumber at length may taste.
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