Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 19. THE WILL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: Now that life is nearly spent Last Line: As they in their vileness wallow Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Life; Wills; Heirs | ||||||||
NOW that life is nearly spent, Here's my will and testament, Giving every foe a present, As a Christian finds it pleasant: Let these gentry full of merit Have my sickness as their guerdon, All that makes my life a burden, -- All my wretched pangs inherit. I bequeath you all the colic Which my belly tweaks in frolic, -- Strangury and these perfidious Prussian piles so sharp and hideous. Unto you my cramps be given, Pains in joints, and salivation, Pains in back, and inflammation, -- Every one the gift of heaven. Let this codicil then follow: -- Lord! that wretched herd demolish, And their very name abolish, As they in their vileness wallow | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INHERITANCE by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE GRIEF OF AN HEIR by WILLIAM COWPER THE THREE-CORNERED LOT by NATHALIA CRANE FROM JUNE TO JUNE by NORMAN STAUNTON DIKE HAME CONTENT: A SATIRE by ROBERT FERGUSSON ROB. FERGUSSON'S LAST WILL by ROBERT FERGUSSON INHERITANCE by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER FABLES: 2ND SER. 12. PAN AND FORTUNE by JOHN GAY |
|