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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: Three women sit at the crossway lonely
Last Line: Turmoil of life's distresses for ever!
Subject(s): Faces; Fates (mythology); Life
First Line: Three women sit at the crossway lonely
Last Line: Turmoil of life's distresses for ever!
Subject(s): Faces; Fates (mythology); Life
THREE women sit at the crossway lonely,
They're thinking and spinning,
They're sighing and grinning;
Their very aspect is hideous only.
The distaff the first holds, so placid;
The threads she setteth,
And each one wetteth;
So her hanging lip is all dry and flaccid.
The spindle the second one dances
In a circle 'tis whirling,
In droll fashion twirling;
The old woman's eyes shoot blood-red glances.
The third Fate's hands, so befitting,
Hold the scissors so dreary,
She hums Miserere,
And sharp is her nose, with a wart on it sitting.
O hasten thee quickly, and sever
My life's thread so sadd'ning,
Escaping this madd'ning
Turmoil of life's distresses for ever!
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