Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Part One 1808, Part Two 1832

Bayard Taylor's verse translation, 1870, Part One. 25 parts, about 33,830 words, 3 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust. Two souls, alas, dwell in my breast.
Part One, Outside the City Gate
Verweile doch! du bist so schön! Stay a while! You are so beautiful!
Part One, Faust's Study, the terms of the wager
Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint! I am the spirit that always says no.
Part One, Faust's Study
Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan. The eternal feminine draws us upward.
Part Two, Act V, the final line
In the Prologue in Heaven the Lord tells Mephistopheles that a person must go wrong for as long as he keeps striving, which is the licence the rest of the play runs on.
Part One, Prologue in Heaven

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by Bayard Taylor. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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