Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: My heart, my heart is heavy Last Line: I wish he would shoot me dead! Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
MY heart, my heart is heavy, Though merrily blooms the May; Out on the ancient bastion, Under the lindens I stay. There stands by yon gray old tower, The sentry-house of the town; A red clad peasant soldier Goes pacing up and down. He toys with his shining musket, That gleams in the sunset red, Presenting and shouldering arms now, -- I wish he would shoot me dead! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS |
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