Love
Suleika: The sun appears! A glorious sight!
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Love
THE sun appears! A glorious sight!
The crescent-moon clings round him now.
What could this wondrous pair unite?
How to explain this riddle? How?
HATEM.
May this our joy's foreboder prove!
In it I view myself and thee;
Thou calmest me thy sun, my love,--
Come, my sweet moon, cling thou round me!
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Suleika: The sun appears! A glorious sight!” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/361/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Suleika: The sun appears! A glorious sight!” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/361/.
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