Next Year's Spring Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Next Year's Spring
THE bed of flowers
Loosens amain,
The beauteous snowdrops
Droop o'er the plain.
The crocus opens
Its glowing bud,
Like emeralds others,
Others, like blood.
With saucy gesture
Primroses flare,
And roguish violets,
Hidden with care;
And whatsoever
There stirs and strives,
The Spring's contented,
If works and thrives.
'Mongst all the blossoms
That fairest are,
My sweetheart's sweetness
Is sweetest far;
Upon me ever
Her glances light,
My song they waken,
My words make bright,
An ever open
And blooming mind,
In sport, unsullied,
In earnest, kind.
Though roses and lilies
By Summer are brought,
Against my sweetheart
Prevails he nought.
He just doesn't say - the flowers are blooming- - he gets into their individuality: - - - - - - - - - - -The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. - - - - - - - - - - -The crocus opens Its glowing bud, - - - - - - - - - - -Others, like blood. With saucy gesture - - - - - - - - - - -Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Goethe takes care with the details of life and nature which makes his love protestations so much sweeter
Would be manifestations of nature in next year's spring portrayed through superb imagery by the great poet. Thanks for sharing here.
Needs the German alongside. Another of these 'distant beloveds' that populate the Goethe canon.
And this will continue for many more years to come....Nice poem, thanks for sharing.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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The bed of flowers! With the muse of nature. Thanks for sharing.