Marienbad Elegy
The Marienbad Elegy is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This poem, considered one of Goethe's finest and most personal,[1][2] reflects the devastating sadness the poet felt when Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow declined his proposal (Goethe did not propose to her personally, but via a friend, Carl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach). Goethe was 73 years old, she was 18. He started writing the poem on 5 September 1823 in a coach which carried him from Cheb to Weimar and by his arrival on 12 September, it was finished. He showed it only to his closest friends.[3]
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- To me is all, I to myself am lost,
- Who the immortals' fav'rite erst was thought;
- They, tempting, sent Pandoras to my cost,
- So rich in wealth, with danger far more fraught;
- They urged me to those lips, with rapture crown'd,
- Deserted me, and hurl'd me to the ground.
Goethe never returned to Bohemia again. He died in Weimar in 1832.
References
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- ↑ Goethe
- ↑ Goethe's third summer, in Czech
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