VIII. Book of Suleika - Hatem [1]

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Book of Suleika: Hatem [1]

 

NOT occasion makes the thief;

She's the greatest of the whole;
For Love's relics, to my grief,

From my aching heart she stole.

She hath given it to thee,--

All the joy my life had known,
So that, in my poverty,

Life I seek from thee alone.

Yet compassion greets me straight

In the lustre of thine eye,
And I bless my newborn fate,

As within thine arms I lie.

1815.

Content of VIII. Book of Suleika: Hatem [1] [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem collection: West-Eastern Divan]

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