by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Trocknet nicht, trocknet nicht
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Language: German (Deutsch)
Trocknet nicht, trocknet nicht, Thränen der ewigen Liebe! Ach! nur dem halbgetrockneten Auge Wie öde, wie todt die Welt ihm erscheint! Trocknet nicht, trocknet nicht, Thränen unglücklicher Liebe!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe letzter Hand, Erster Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaschen Buchhandlung, 1827, page 108; and with Goethe's Schriften, Achter Band, Leipzig, bey Georg Joachim Göschen, 1789, page 151.
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- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Wonne der Wehmuth", written 1775, first published 1789 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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