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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres
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The Epochs.
ON Petrarch’s heart, all other days before,
In flaming letters written, was impress d
GOOD FRIDAY. And on mine, be it confess’d, Is this year’s ADVENT, as it passeth o’er.
I do not now begin,—I still adore
Her whom I early cherish’d in my breast;,
Then once again with prudence dispossess’d, And to whose heart I’m driven back once more.
The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love,
Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad;
One long Good Friday ’twas, one heartache drear
But may my mistress’ Advent ever prove,
With its palm-jubilee, so sweet and glad,
One endless Mayday, through the livelong year!
1807. -----
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Chicago:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Epochs.," The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres, ed. Eliot, Charles W. and trans. Bowring, Edgar Alfred, 1826-1911 in The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1874), Original Sources, accessed July 2, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=942DEI2RV6GUKM1.
MLA:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. "The Epochs." The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres, edited by Eliot, Charles W., and translated by Bowring, Edgar Alfred, 1826-1911, in The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres, Vol. 3, New York, P. F. Collier & Son, 1874, Original Sources. 2 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=942DEI2RV6GUKM1.
Harvard:
Goethe, JW, 'The Epochs.' in The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres, ed. and trans. . cited in 1874, The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres, P. F. Collier & Son, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 2 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=942DEI2RV6GUKM1.
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