Versos English Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust

English poem

Faust

by (1749–1832)

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I feel it, I have heap'd upon my brain The gather'd treasure of man's thought in vain; And when at length from studious toil I rest, No power, new-born, springs up within my breast; A hair's breadth is not added to my height, I am no nearer to the infinite.