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Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Shipwreck!
Identifier
004131
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This observation may be unique on this site because it describes what it feels like after a rebirth experience but it is done allegorically
A description of the experience
Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine – by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker
From the North Sea
Shipwreck!
Hope and love! All hopelessly shattered!
And myself like a corpse
Grudgingly cast up by the sea
Am washed on the shore
On the dull naked shore
Before me surges the wide waste of waters
Behind me lay but sorrow and anguish
While over my head sail the clouds
The shapeless grey daughters of air
Who fetch, in buckets of vapours
Water from the ocean
And drag and drag it in arduous toil
But to spill it again in the sea
A dull and tedious employment
And useless like my own life
The billows murmur, the sea-gulls scream
Old memories drift over my soul