Heinrich Heine (1799-1856). I Dreamed a Princess Came to Me. Margarete Munsterberg, ed., trans. 1916. A Harvest of German Verse

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Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

I Dreamed a Princess Came to Me

By Heinrich Heine (1799–1856)


I DREAMED a princess came to me
With pale and tearful face.
We sat beneath the linden tree
In lovers’ fond embrace.

“I do not want thy father’s throne,	5
Nor yet his sceptre of gold,
His diamond crown I would not own—
Thee, fairest, I want to hold.”

“That may not be,” she spake to me,
“I lie in my grave below—	10
Only at night I come to thee,
Because I love thee so.”