To the kind Reader

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Title:     To the kind Reader
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

No one talks more than a Poet;

Fain he'd have the people know it.

Praise or blame he ever loves;

None in prose confess an error,

Yet we do so, void of terror,

In the Muses' silent groves.

What I err'd in, what corrected,

What I suffer'd, what effected,

To this wreath as flow'rs belong;

For the aged, and the youthful,

And the vicious, and the truthful,

All are fair when viewed in song.

1800.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: To the kind Reader

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