Nature

In Summer

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832

Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs

Nature

How plain and height
With dewdrops are bright!
How pearls have crown'd
The plants all around!
How sighs the breeze
Thro' thicket and trees!
How loudly in the sun's clear rays
The sweet birds carol forth their lays!

But, ah! above,
Where saw I my love,
Within her room,
Small, mantled in gloom,
Enclosed around,
Where sunlight was drown'd,
How little there was earth to me,
With all its beauteous majesty!

MLA

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “In Summer.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/54/.

Chicago

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “In Summer.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/54/.

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