Food in Travel (Sonnet)

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Title:     Food in Travel (Sonnet)
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

IF to her eyes' bright lustre I were blind,

No longer would they serve my life to gild.

The will of destiny must be fulfilid,--

This knowing, I withdrew with sadden'd mind.

No further happiness I now could find:

The former longings of my heart were still'd;

I sought her looks alone, whereon to build

My joy in life,--all else was left behind.

Wine's genial glow, the festal banquet gay,

Ease, sleep, and friends, all wonted pleasures glad

I spurn'd, till little there remain'd to prove.

Now calmly through the world I wend my way:

That which I crave may everywhere be had,

With me I bring the one thing needful--love.

1807.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: Food in Travel (Sonnet)

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