Menschengefühl
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG HUN
Ach, ihr Götter! große Götter
In dem weiten Himmel droben!
Gäbet ihr uns auf der Erde
Festen Sinn und guten Muth;
O wir ließen euch, ihr Guten,
Euren weiten Himmel droben!
Confirmed with Goethe's Poetische und Prosaische Werke in zwei Bänden, Des Ersten Bandes Erste Abtheilung, Stuttgart und Tübingen: Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1836, page 69.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Human emotions", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Hangulat", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2015-01-20
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Human emotions
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Ah, ye gods! great gods
In the broad heaven above!
If you would give us [here] on earth
A steadfast spirit and good cheer;
Oh, we would leave to you, ye good ones,
Your broad heaven above!
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This text was added to the website: 2022-12-13
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