Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79.

Venice

The Gondola

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

TILTS the gondola lightly over the wave like a cradle,

And the chest thereupon me of a coffin reminds.

Just so we, ’twixt cradle and coffin, go tilting and floating

On Time’s larger canal carelessly on through our life.