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‘The Sea Hath Its Pearls’ by Heinrich Heine is a romantic lyric that compares love to a pearl from the sea. Heine imagines love as a greater power than natural forces, including the ocean and even heaven.
- Heinrich Heine Poetry
Heine’s ‘The Sea Hath Its Pearls’ likens love to pearls and...
- Heinrich Heine Poetry
Heine’s ‘The Sea Hath Its Pearls’ likens love to pearls and stars, expressing its vastness and beauty greater than the sea or heaven. Heinrich Heine is a German poet better known in Europe, but lyrics like 'The Sea Hath Its Pearls' are known internationally for being set to music.
By the sea. Language: English  after the  German (Deutsch) The sea has its pearls the sky [has] its stars but my heart, my heart my heart has its love. The sea and the sky are big but my heart is even bigger and my heart twinkles and shines more beautifully than pearls and stars.
Aug 23, 2016 · Comparatively little known and little appreciated in England, the name of Heine is in Germany familiar as a household word; and while, on the one hand, many of his charming minor poems have become dear to the hearts of thousands and tens of thousands of his fellow-countrymen, and are sung alike in the palace and the cottage, in the ...
Mar 21, 2010 · [Pg vi] [Pg vii] HEINRICH HEINE. (BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.) Harry Heine, as he was originally named, was born in Düsseldorf on the Rhine, December 13th, 1799. His father was a well-to-do Jewish merchant; and his mother, the daughter of the famous physician and Aulic Counlor Von Geldern, was, according to her son, a " femme distinguée."
The sea hath its pearls, The heaven hath its stars; But my heart, my heart, My heart hath its love. Great are the sea and the heaven; Yet greater is my heart, And fairer than pearls and stars Flashes and beams my love.
known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
