Social Commentaries
Genial Impulse
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Epigrams
Social Commentaries
THUS roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes,
Now serious am, now seek to please;
Now love and hate in turn one sees;
The motives now are those, now these;
Now nothings, now realities.
Thus roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Genial Impulse.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/199/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Genial Impulse.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/199/.
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