Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PSYCHE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE


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PSYCHE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The muses, maiden sisters, chose
Last Line: And taught her all the mystery.
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Psyche (mythology)


THE MUSES, maiden sisters, chose
To teach poor Psyche arts poetic;
But, spite of all their rules aesthetic,
She never could emerge from prose.

No dulcet sounds escaped her lyre,
E'en when the summer nights were nigh;
Till Cupid came, with glance of fire,
And taught her all the mystery.





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