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‘Ah! if thou wert mine own, love’

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Poem details

‘Ah! if thou wert mine own, love’

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‘Ah! if thou wert mine own, love’

Poet(s)

Heine, Heinrich

Credits

Translator

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 80:492, 424, October 1856.

First line

Ah! if thou were mine own, love

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

German

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Notes and attribution research

Poem included in the unsigned Wayside Songs, Original and Translated (403-29), by Andrew Wilson (Wellesley Index). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 9365

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘Ah! if thou wert mine own, love’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1856/pom_9365_ah_if_thou_wert_mine_own_love.html.

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