Love
Sicilian Song
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs
Love
YE black and roguish eyes,
If ye command.
Each house in ruins lies,
No town can stand.
And shall my bosom's chain,--
This plaster wall,—
To think one moment, deign,--
Shall ii not fall?
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Sicilian Song.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/92/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Sicilian Song.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/92/.
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