“I should have died sooner. But there was one thing: Mama’s love. When I thought of that I couldn’t die. It’s true, as I have said, that just as man has the right to live as he chooses, he has the right to die when he pleases, and yet as long as my mother remained […]
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~TO MY MOTHER, B. HEINE, NÉE VON GELDERN~
“I have been wont to bear my head right high,My temper too is somewhat stern and rough;Even before a monarch’s cold rebuffI would not timidly avert mine eye.Yet, mother dear, I’ll tell it openly:Much as my haughty pride may swell and puff,I feel submissive and subdued enough,When thy much-cherished, darling form is nigh.Is it thy […]
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