Arts & Sciences
A Plan the Muses Entertained
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Parables
Arts & Sciences
A PLAN the Muses entertain'd
Methodically to impart
To Psyche the poetic art;
Prosaic-pure her soul remain'd.
No wondrous sounds escaped her lyre
E'en in the fairest Summer night;
But Amor came with glance of fire,--
The lesson soon was learn'd aright.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “A Plan the Muses Entertained.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/235/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “A Plan the Muses Entertained.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/235/.
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