Love
Love for love, and moments sweet
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Love
LOVE for love, and moments sweet,
Lips returning kiss for kiss,
Word for word, and eyes that meet;
Breath for breath, and bliss for bliss.
Thus at eve, and thus the morrow!
Yet thou feeblest, at my lay,
Ever some half-hidden sorrow;
Could I Joseph's graces borrow,
All thy beauty I'd repay!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Love for love, and moments sweet.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/362/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Love for love, and moments sweet.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/362/.
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