The Mind
Human Feelings
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Miscellaneous Poems
The Mind
AH, ye gods! ye great immortals
In the spacious heavens above us!
Would ye on this earth but give us
Steadfast minds and dauntless courage
We, oh kindly ones, would leave you
All your spacious heavens above us!
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Human Feelings.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/179/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Human Feelings.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/179/.
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