Erotica Romana

By Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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Title:	Erotica Romana
Author:	Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Excerpt: II. Tell me ye stones and give me O glorious palaces answer. Speak O ye streets but one word. Genius, art thou alive? Yes, here within thy sanctified walls there?s a soul in each object, ROMA eternal. For me, only, are all things yet mute. Who will then tell me in whispers and where must I find just the window Where one day she'll be glimpsed: creature who'll scorch me with love? Can?t I divine yet the paths through which over and over To her and from her I?ll go, squandering valuable time? Visiting churches and palaces, all of the ruins and the pillars, I, a responsible man, profit from making this trip. With my business accomplished, ah, then shall only one temple, AMOR?S temple alone, take the initiate in. Rome, thou art a whole world, it is true, and yet without love this World would not be the world, Rome would cease to be Rome.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Erotica Romana, 1 -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 2 -- III, 2 -- IV, 3 -- V, 3 -- VI, 4 -- VII, 4 -- VIII, 5 -- IX, 6 -- X, 6 -- XI, 7 -- XII, 7 -- XIII, 7 -- XIV, 7 -- XV, 8 -- XVI, 9 -- XVII, 10 -- XVIII, 11 -- XIX, 12 -- XX, 12 -- XXI, 12 -- XXII, 13 -- XXIII, 14 -- XXIV, 15 -- About the Elegies, 16 -- Erotica Romana -- i