This poem encourages its addressee to "Observe, investigate, with searching eyes," claiming that then "nature will disclose her mysteries." It compares the passage of hours to sisters, in that they are both so similar and so different. This poem describes a yearning for a "holier, purer, unknown Being" about which "We call it: piety!" It opens by asking "What (*) hope of o
This poem encourages its addressee to "Observe, investigate, with searching eyes," claiming that then "nature will disclose her mysteries." It compares the passage of hours to sisters, in that they are both so similar and so different. This poem describes a yearning for a "holier, purer, unknown Being" about which "We call it: piety!" It opens by asking "What (*) hope of once more meeting is there now / In the still-closed blossoms of this day" and was composed after the rejection of its author's marriage proposal to the far younger Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow. At the end of this poem, its speaker recalls being "urged to those lips, with rapture crowned" and then being deserted and hurled to the ground. For 10 points, name this poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, sometimes named for Marienbad.
This poem encourages its addressee to "Observe, investigate, with searching eyes," claiming that then "nature will disclose her mysteries.
"Marienbad Elegy"