Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, surly pilot, shortly Last Line: Both thou broughtest, death and flame! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Love; Patience; Dead, The; Parting | ||||||||
PATIENCE, surly pilot, shortly To the port I'll follow you; From two maidens I'm departing, From my love and Europe too. Blood-spring, from mine eyes 'gin running, Blood-spring, from my body flow, So that I then, with my hot blood, May write down my tale of woe. Ah, my body, wherefore shudder Thus to-day my blood to see? Many years before thee standing Pale, heart-bleeding, saw'st thou me! Know'st thou still the olden story Of the snake in Paradise, Who, a cursed apple giving, Caused our parents endless sighs? Apples brought all evils on us, Death through Eve by apples came; Flames on Troy were brought by Eris, -- Both thou broughtest, death and flame! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. by JUNE JORDAN WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA by JAMES JOYCE SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES |
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