The Poetry of Ellin Anderson

FOUND (GEFUNDEN)

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

English version by Ellin Anderson
 

I went to the woods
And walked around,
With nothing there
To be sought or found,

Or that was my sense —
But within the glade,
A flowerlet stood
In the emerald shade.

She was as lovely
As flashing eyes,
Or glitter of stars
In the evening skies,

And never was flower
More fairly spoken:
"Only to wither
Shall I be broken?"

And so, I carried her,
Roots and all,
To a garden bed
Near the cottage wall,

In the cooling shade
That she loved before,
And now, she will bloom for me
Evermore.
 

© 2009 by Ellin Anderson. All rights reserved.
No part of this work may be copied or used in any way
without written permission from the author.

Liberty Enlightens the People
The Leap
The Goldfinch
Three Bears
Song of the Lily
White Tree at Twilight
The Spinner
Song for the Harp
The Little Heath-Rose
The Christmas Tree
Song-Sparrow
 Grand Bois du Nord
 The Owl
Moth Summer
Verticordia
The Little God of Joy
Pear-Petals
Photographing the Moon
A Rabbit
Rose, Do You Know
The Two Pining Bachelors
Lorelei
Persephone
Avalon
The Harvest Chorus
The Maple Mask
Ghost Cardinal

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