Erotica Romana

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. EROTICA ROMANA By Johann Wolfgang Goethe I Here's where I've planted my garden and here I shall care for love's blossoms-- As I am taught by my muse, carefully sort them in plots: Fertile branches, whose product is golden fruit of my lifetime, Set here in happier years, tended with pleasure today. You, stand here at my side, good Priapus--albeit from thieves I've Nothing to fear. Freely pluck, whosoever would eat. --Hypocrites, those are the ones! If weakened with shame and bad conscience One of