Heinrich Heine, ‘Der Hirtenknabe’ (1827)

Considering how this poem rules

[This Franz von Lenbach (1836–1904) painting, ‘Hirtenknabe’ (1860), was made to illustrate Heine’s poem]

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Another small poetry point, in this post about Heinrich Heine’s famous, Romantic, rather sentimental, perhaps (whisper it) actively twee, poem: ‘Der Hirtenknabe’, ‘The Shepherd Boy’, from his first collection Buch der Lieder, ‘Book of Songs’ (1827). …