Death & Dying

Anacreon's Grave

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832

Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Antiques

Death & Dying

HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laurels are twining,
Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket is heard,
Say, whose grave can this be, with life by all the Immortals

Beauteously planted and deck'd?--Here doth Anacreon sleep
Spring and summer and autumn rejoiced the thrice-happy minstrel,
And from the winter this mound kindly hath screen'd him at last.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Anacreon's Grave.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/279/.

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Anacreon's Grave.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/279/.

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