Best Friedrich Poems
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems“To Edward Young”
by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
translation by Michael R. Burch
Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum;
now tears of joy
tremble on angel-lids
as heaven extends its welcome.
Why linger here? Have you not already built, great Mover,
a monument beyond the clouds?
Now over your night-thoughts, too,
the pallid free-thinkers...
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Categories:
friedrich, angel, death, dream, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
My Reply To Friedrich Nietzsche" There is not enough love and goodness in the world to give any of it away to imaginary beings. " *
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
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No, dear Friedrich,
God is not an imaginary being
But
The most real of beings to whom...
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Categories:
friedrich, faith, god, love, religion,
Form:
Free verse