| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | To My Mother (II.) | | By Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) |
| | Translated by Stratheir
IN a wild mood of yore I left thee, turning | |
| Throughout the ends of the wide earth to wander, | |
| To seek a love that I might meet with fonder, | |
| And clasp it with love’s own ecstatic burning. | |
| Through every path I followed love with yearning, | 5 |
| With out-stretched hands before each door-step yonder, | |
| I begged a dole of love that men do squander,— | |
| Yet met with but cold hate and laughter spurning. | |
| Still ever roamed I in love’s quest, and ever | |
| I followed love, and yet did find love never, | 10 |
| And home returned again, heart-sick and rueing. | |
| But thou didst come in welcome forth to meet me, | |
| And, oh! within thy swimming eyes did greet me | |
| The sweet love I had been so long pursuing. | | | | |
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