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· The Door: Selected Poems

· The Fuck Generation


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· My Interview with Laurel Johnson in 2003


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· A Double Murder in Los Angeles

· Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Country

· O Woman, I am a Lily of the Valley...

· Reunion and Uncle Joe's Adventures in Korea

· Our Minds Were Drifting

· Ode to Mental Patients

· Pisces Girl

· Happy as a Goose

· I Don't Belong

· A Screaming Poem

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Es kommt der Tod
8/16/2022 5:25:04 PM


German poetry by Heinrich Heine
Es kommt der Tod 

Es kommt der Tod -- jetzt will ich sagen,
Was zu verschweigen ewiglich
Mein Stolz gebot: für dich, für dich,
Es hat mein Herz für dich geschlagen!

Der Sarg ist fertig, sie versenken
Mich in die Gruft. Da hab ich Ruh.
Doch du, doch du, Maria, du
Wirst weinen oft und mein gedenken.

Du ringst sogar die schönen Hände --
O tröste dich -- Das ist das Los,
Das Menschenlos: -- was gut und groß
Und schön, das nimmt ein schlechtes Ende.

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

 

Now death draws near, and what unknown,
Pride counselled, should for ever be,
I will declare: for thee, for thee,
My heart has beat for thee alone.

My coffin's made, and to my bed
They lower me, that I may sleep.
But thou, Maria, thou wilt weep
And think on me when I am dead.

Thy pretty hands thou'lt even wring.
Oh, grieve not — 'tis the human lot: —
At last defiled in death must rot
Each good and great and lovely thing.

--translated by Louis Untermeyer



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