The Friendly Meeting

Read 'The Friendly Meeting' by 'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

The Friendly Meeting by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 Lovingly I'll sing of love;
Ever comes she from above.

THE FRIENDLY MEETING.

IN spreading mantle to my chin conceald,

I trod the rocky path, so steep and grey,

Then to the wintry plain I bent my way
Uneasily, to flight my bosom steel'd.

But sudden was the newborn day reveal'd:

A maiden came, in heavenly bright array,

Like the fair creatures of the poet's lay
In realms of song. My yearning heart was heal'd.

Yet turn'd I thence, till she had onward pass'd,

While closer still the folds to draw I tried,

 As though with heat self-kindled to grow warm;

But follow'd her. She stood. The die was cast!

No more within my mantle could I hide;

 I threw it off,--she lay within mine arm.

 1807-8.

Form: Italian Sonnet

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