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Secular or Eclectic
18th Century

About Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Timeline (1749 - 1832)

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English version by
Peter Salm

Original Language
German
In the tides of life and action (from Faust)

Themes
  Death
  Water
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly

In the tides of life and action
I rise and descend
and fling the shuttle back and forth.
The cradle and the grave,
a perennial sea,
a flickering fabric,
a glowing life,
I toil at the whirring loom of time
and weave the godhead's living vesture.

 

 

-- from Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm

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