Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - How fair doth Nature Appear again! How

How fair doth Nature
Appear again!
How bright the sunbeams!
How smiles the plain!
The flow'rs are bursting
From ev'ry bough,
And thousand voices
Each bush yields now.
And joy and gladness
Fill ev'ry breast!
Oh earth!-oh sunlight!
Oh rapture blest!
Oh love! oh loved one!

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von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Poems of Goethe. Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring, John W. Lovell Company, 1882, p. 45.

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About the Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Born: August 28, 1749
Died: March 22, 1832
Nationality: German
Profession: Poet, Novelist, Playwright

Biography

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.

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