Long Thraldom Poems

Die Lorelei by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)- Translated by T. Wignesan
	For Regina von Degenfeld at Waibstadt
	-in respect and unending sufferance-

(Heine, a German Jewish lyrical and satiric poet, journalist and critic,
 settled in Paris from 1831 where...

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His words cut deep like a knife,
Last night, it was as if all the unknown of the world pressed upon her gloomy soul,
His last punches blasted her chin and as well blurred her vision
The love...

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We have murdered morality and raped reality.
Every chicken wants to crow before they grow.
Our boys are hunters and our girls flaunters. 
The future is forgotten and backwardness begotten. 
Our fathers are scavengers and our youths...

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The rugged race is not to 
the swift
nor the bitter battle to 
the strong,
within us lies a leverage, 
a lift--
towering above the 
thraldom of throngs.

Godliness plus 
contentment breeds gain;
Laziness plus gluttony 
concieves penury.
We are who...

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The rugged race is not to 
the swift
nor the bitter battle to 
the strong,
within us lies a leverage, 
a lift--
towering above the 
thraldom of throngs.

Godliness plus 
contentment breeds gain;
Laziness plus gluttony 
concieves penury.
We are who...

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Our prosperity lies not in the dead we celebrate
but in the lives we liberate and educate.
Our poverty lies not in the funds we lack
but in the giants who are slow and slack.

I see the stars...

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You do not need the gods to be great,
feast not on the seeds of false fate.
Soar to the skies, sit at the shore of destiny,
tomorrow belongs to hope and harmony:
harmony of faith in the field...

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He is the Lion of the tribe of his home;
 his arrival makes everyone run and roam...
 Tantrum and torments are the daily bread
 with which he feed his family as the wicked head.

 To...

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She used to mean a world to me:
my soil, my sky, my sea,
she was my stay in trying times;
we did commit cool crimes.
Loving and learning what is right
and sometimes fighting all the night,
in freaky blast,...

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In a wave like motion, we began moving across the leaf.
We had travelled here together, hundreds in the belief,
That our lives would be safer after ten days of pupation.
We won’t be so tasty to birds...

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Competition to me is a waste of time,
the clock and the calendar commit no crime.
Look into my eyes, I am the sparkling sun
looming up above to share the fluid of fun.
We are immortal spirits, immortal...

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THE   RISK  OF  LOVE  


It was a hostile land in those days, singing
Of our dream of a house, clinging 
To something we could believe in,
Rooted in the soft rocks so...

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I'm in a cruel and mysterious world,
Where pains and affliction are served cold,
In the farthest edge of the nights,
Leaving fathomless depths of suffering to tear me apart.

As if smitten by a sudden spasm,
I'm awaiting my...

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The weakness of the weak
is not the strength of the strong...
and those who must get to the peak
must do something right or wrong.

The poverty of the poor...
is not the wealth of the wealthy
and those who...

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A stifling calm hung over the enlivened eve,
Across the gulf of years and time,
Ambitions and aspirations shivered into solids and dust,
I must have existed here before now.

It's hard to cry, complain and die soon,
I'm familiar...

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THE   RISKS  OF  LOVE  


It was a hostile land in those days, singing
Of our dream of a house, clinging 
To something we could believe in,
Rooted in the soft rocks so...

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