Poems

They much need re-handling, which they cannot now receive. Many lines are, as verse, defective for the ear … yet some contain sufficient beauty, as well as fidelity, in translation to justify, perhaps, their preservation as fragments of unfinished work.

This does not apply to the other translations which were left by E. D. in fair MS. as completed.

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“Sechzehn Parabeln,” Gedichte, Leoper’s edition (p. 180) of Goethe’s Gedichte.