| Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916. | | | | From an Oppressed Heart | | By Richard Dehmel (1863–1920) |
| | | AND still the roses gleam for me, | |
| The sombre leaves their tremour keep; | |
| Here in the grass I wake from sleep. | |
| I long for thee, | |
| For now the midnight is so deep. | 5 |
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| The moon ’s behind the garden gate, | |
| Her light o’erflows the lake with gloss, | |
| And silently the willows wait; | |
| On clover moist my limbs I toss. | |
| And never was my love so great! | 10 |
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| So well I ne’er before had known | |
| When I embraced thy shoulder dear, | |
| Thine inmost self felt blindly near, | |
| Why, when my heart had overflown, | |
| Thy moans would rise from inmost fear. | 15 |
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| Oh now, oh, hadst thou seen this glow— | |
| The creeping pair of glow-worms’ flame! | |
| Ah, nevermore from thee I’ll go! | |
| I long for thee. | |
| And still the roses gleam for me. | 20 | | | |
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