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Venetian Epigram 11: Thou art amazed, and dost point to the ocean. It seems to be burning
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Venetian Epigrams
THOU art amazed, and dost point to the ocean. It seems to be burning,
Flame-crested billows in play dart round our night-moving bark.
Me it astonisheth not,--of the ocean was born Aphrodite,--
Did not a flame, too, proceed from her for us, in her son?
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Venetian Epigram 11: Thou art amazed, and dost point to the ocean. It seems to be burning.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/311/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Venetian Epigram 11: Thou art amazed, and dost point to the ocean. It seems to be burning.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/311/.
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