HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

Heinrich Heine
Were all you had, pathetic commonplace
Of verse, and yet you sang the rest to blazes.
And why? because you were the nightingale
Or felt her feathers beat against your throat.
You had seen the actual rose, and the first pale
Leaves of young April were the ink in which you wro
You had the authentic cadence of blossom moving
Of its own impulse, as the petal uncurled,
Heine, when all of us grow weary of loving.
The young untired lover of the world.
Echoes of Heine's German songs often foui
their way into English lyrics of high quality. S.
Wormley was able to prove the influence of Heii
upon the poetry of James Thomson, especial
Vane's Story, and upon that of William Erne
Henley and Alfred Noyes. This American schol
also succeeded in ferreting out striking similariti
between the German poet and Owen Meredit
William Sharp, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Robe
Louis Stevenson, Ernest Dowson, William Allin
ham, and Arthur Symons.^ A. E. Housman's sin
larity to Heine was first noted by Edmund Gos
in 1923 and since then other scholars have prov(
an actual influence of Lyrical Intermezzo upc
this extremely meticulous poet.^ Housman hir
self stated that the chief sources of which he w
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