Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 9. ECHO, by HEINRICH HEINE


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PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 9. ECHO, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gainst the mast reclining, and high on the lofty deck
Last Line: She loves him! She loves him!
Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Love


GAINST the mast reclining, and high on the lofty deck
Stood I and heard I the song of the bird.
Like black-green steeds, with silvery manes,
The white and curling billows were springing;
Like flocks of swans were sailing past us,
With glittering sails, the men of Heligoland,
The nomads bold of the Baltic.
Over my head, in the azure eterne,
Snowy clouds were fluttering on,
While sparkled the sun everlasting,
The rose of the heavens, the fiery-blooming one,
Who joyfully mirror'd himself in the ocean;
And heaven and ocean and with them my heart
In echo resounded.
She loves him! She loves him!





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