sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) and by Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860)
Nimmer will ich dich verlieren!
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Language: German (Deutsch)
Nimmer will ich dich verlieren! Liebe gibt der Liebe Kraft. Magst du meine Jugend zieren Mit gewalt'ger Leidenschaft. Ach! Wie schmeichelts meinem Triebe, Wenn man meinen Dichter preist: Denn das Leben ist die Liebe, Und des Lebens Leben Geist.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Goethes Briefwechsel mit Marianne von Willemer, ed. by Max Becker, Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1922, page XLIII, in a letter to Goethe, who published the poem under his own name for various reasons described in Goethe and His Publishers by Siegfried Unseld, translated by Kenneth J. Northcott, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, page 360, note 12.
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- sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- by Marianne von Willemer (1784 - 1860), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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