Nature
The Wanderer's Night-Song
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs
Nature
THOU who comest from on high,
Who all woes and sorrows stillest,
Who, for twofold misery,
Hearts with twofold balsam fillest,
Would this constant strife would cease!
What are pain and rapture now?
Blissful Peace,
To my bosom hasten thou!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Wanderer's Night-Song.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/68/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Wanderer's Night-Song.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/68/.
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