<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418875" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Venetian Epigrams I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sarcophagi, urns, were all covered with lifelike scenes,<br>fauns dancing with girls from a Bacchanalian choir,<br>paired-off, goat-footed creatures puffing their cheeks,<br>forcing ear-splitting notes from the blaring horns.<br>Cymbals and drumbeats, the marble is seen and is heard.<br>How delightful the fruit in the beaks of fluttering birds!<br>No startling noise can scare them, or scare away love,<br>Amor, whose torch waves more gladly in this happy throng.<br>So fullness overcomes death, and the ashes within<br>seem still, in their silent house, to feel love’s delight.<br>So may the Poet’s sarcophagus be adorned,<br>with this book the writer has filled with the beauty of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418875" data-title="Venetian Epigrams I de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="Sarcophagi, urns, were all covered with lifelike scenes, fauns dancing with girls from a Bacchanalian choir, paired-off, goat-footed creatures puffing their cheeks, forcing ear-splitting notes from the blaring horns. Cymbals and drumbeats, the mar..."></div> </div> </div>

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