Living
When so many minstrels there are
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
WHEN so many minstrels there are,
How it pains me, alas, to know it!
Who from the earth drives poetry far?
Who but the poet!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “When so many minstrels there are.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/356/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “When so many minstrels there are.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/356/.
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