Close Both My Eyes

[Eva Libre]

Close both my eyes
with your beloved hands!
For everything I suffer
comes to rest under your hand.

And as the pain,
wave upon wave, gently lies down to sleep,
as the last heartbeat stirs,
you fill my whole heart.

 *Theodor Storm

[Eva Libre]

Theodor Storm (1817-1888)

Theodor Storm, author of poems and novellas, was born and lived most of his life on the shores of the North Sea. His most famous poem “The Town”/Die Stadt, takes his hometown of Husum as its setting.