Living
The flood of passion storms with fruitless strife
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
THE flood of passion storms with fruitless strife
'Gainst the unvanquished solid land.--
It throws poetic pearls upon the strand,
And thus is gain'd the prize of life.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The flood of passion storms with fruitless strife.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/355/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The flood of passion storms with fruitless strife.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/355/.
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