Erotica Romana

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a great German writer of many different genres including plays, poetry, science, and literary critiques.  With classics such as Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, and The Sorrows of Young Werther, von Goethe remains one of the most widely read authors today.  This edition of Erotica Romana includes a table of contents.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles River Editors
• Release date: Mar 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9781531277611

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) fue un pensador, escritor y científico alemán, precursor del romanticismo alemán e iniciador del movimiento Sturm und Drang. Entre sus obras literarias más conocidas se encuentran Las desventuras del joven Werther (1774) y el Fausto (1807, 1832).

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EROTICA ROMANA

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Erotica Romana

EROTICA ROMANA

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I

Here’s where I’ve planted my garden and here I shall care for love’s blossoms—

As I am taught by my muse, carefully sort them in plots:

Fertile branches, whose product is golden fruit of my lifetime,

Set here in happier years, tended with pleasure today.

You, stand here at my side, good Priapus—albeit from thieves I’ve

Nothing to fear. Freely pluck, whosoever would eat.

—Hypocrites, those are the ones! If weakened with shame and bad conscience

One of those criminals comes, squinting out over my garden,

Bridling at nature’s pure fruit, punish the knave in his hindparts,

Using the stake which so red rises there at your loins.

II

Tell me ye stones and give me O glorious palaces answer.

Speak O ye streets but one word. Genius, art thou alive?

Yes, here within thy sanctified walls there’s a soul in each object,

ROMA eternal. For me, only, are all things yet mute.

Who will then tell me in whispers and where must I find just the window

Where one day she’ll be glimpsed: creature who’ll scorch me with love?

Can’t I divine yet the paths through which over and over

To her and from her I’ll go, squandering valuable time?

Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars,

I, a responsible man, profit from making this trip.

With my business accomplished, ah, then