Living
A man with households twain
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
A MAN with households twain
Ne'er finds attention meet,
A house wherein two women reign
Is ne'er kept clean and neat.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “A man with households twain.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/350/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “A man with households twain.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/350/.
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