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When I look into your eyes then vanish all my sorrow and pain…
Geographische Liebes-Rathsel
- Author: ANONYMOUS
- Publication date: c1902
- Physical description: Chromolithograph postcard.
- Dimensions: 90 by 140mm. (3.5 by 5.5 inches).
- Inventory reference: 16456
Notes
One of a series of love map postcards intended to illustrate the the early German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine’s ‘Buch der Lieder’.
The poem illustrated here is:
“Wenn ich in deiner Augen seh’ so schwindet all’ mein Leid und Weh… (When I look into your eyes then vanish all my sorrow and pain…)
The two lovers look at each other across the sea; the woman’s profile outlined on the ‘Lied’ coast; where as the man, whose profile can be seen on the ‘Brust’ coast is shown reciting the poem.
The poem illustrated here is:
“Wenn ich in deiner Augen seh’ so schwindet all’ mein Leid und Weh… (When I look into your eyes then vanish all my sorrow and pain…)
The two lovers look at each other across the sea; the woman’s profile outlined on the ‘Lied’ coast; where as the man, whose profile can be seen on the ‘Brust’ coast is shown reciting the poem.
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