by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Freudvoll/ Und leidvoll
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Language: German (Deutsch)
Freudvoll Und leidvoll, Gedankenvoll seyn; Langen Und bangen In schwebender Pein; Himmelhoch jauchzend Zum Tode betrübt; Glücklich allein Ist die Seele, die liebt.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Achter Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, pages 231-232, and with Egmont. Trauerspiel von Goethe. Leipzig bei Georg Joachim Göschen 1788, page 97.
Note for line 4 word 1: some editions not endorsed by Goethe have "Hangen" instead of "Langen".
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Egmont, Act III, Clärchen's song, first published 1788 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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