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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres
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The Death of the Fly.
WITH eagerness he drinks the treach’rous potion,
Nor stops to rest, by the first taste misled;
Sweet is the draught, but soon all power of motion
He finds has from his tender members fled;
No longer has he strength to plume his wing,
No longer strength to raise his head, poor thing!
E’en in enjoyment’s hour his life he loses,
His little foot to bear his weight refuses;
So on he sips, and ere his draught is o’er,
Death veils his thousand eyes for evermore.
1810.
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Chicago: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "The Death of the Fly.," 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 October 3, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LHG6FU28FCAYD6C.
MLA: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. "The Death of the Fly." 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. 3 Oct. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LHG6FU28FCAYD6C.
Harvard: Goethe, JW, 'The Death of the Fly.' 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 3 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LHG6FU28FCAYD6C.
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