Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 6. DECLARATION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: Onward glimmering came the evening Last Line: "agnes, I love thee!" Subject(s): Love; Sea; Ocean | ||||||||
ONWARD glimmering came the evening, Wilder tossed the flood, And I sat on the strand, regarding The snowy dance of the billows, And soon my bosom swell'd like the sea; A deep home-sickness yearningly seized me For thee, thou darling form, Who everywhere surround'st me, And everywhere call'st me, Everywhere, everywhere, In the moan of the wind, in the roar of the ocean, In the sigh within my own breast. With brittle reed I wrote on the sand: "Agnes, I love thee!" But wicked billows soon pour'd themselves Over the blissful confession, Effacing it all. Ah too fragile reed, ah fast-scatter'd sand, Ah fugitive billows, I'll trust you no more! The heavens grow darker, my heart grows wilder And with vigorous hand from the forests of Norway Tear I the highest fir-tree, And plunge it deep In Etna's glowing abyss, and thereafter With fire-imbued giant-pen I write on the dark veil of heaven: "Agnes, I love thee!" Every night gleams thenceforward On high that eternal fiery writing, And all generations of farthest descendants Read gladly the heavenly sentence: "Agnes, I love thee!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS |
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