Versos English Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust

English poem

Faust

by (1749–1832)

Listen in the reader

Mephisto, seest thou there Standing far off, a lone child, pale and fair? Slow from the spot her drooping form she tears, And seems with shackled feet to move along; I own, within me the delusion's strong, That she the likeness of my Gretchen wears.