Love
The Types
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
LIST, and in memory bear
These six fond loving pair.
Love, when aroused, kept true
Rustan and Rad!
Strangers approach from far
Joseph and Suleika;
Love, void of hope, is in
Ferhad and Schirin.
Born for each other are
Medschnun and Lily;
Loving, though old and grey,
Dschemil saw Boteinah.
Love's sweet caprice anon,
Brown maid and Solomon!
If thou dost mark them well,
Stronger thy love will swell.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Types.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/328/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Types.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/328/.
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