Nature
Flower-Salute
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs
Nature
THIS nosegay,--'twas I dress'd it,--
Greets thee a thousand times!
Oft stoop'd I, and caress'd it,
Ah! full a thousand times,
And 'gainst my bosom press'd it
A hundred thousand times!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Flower-Salute.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/53/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Flower-Salute.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/53/.
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