Cover detail, The Student, 1862, by Daniel Maclise
Faust - Part One
Started August 15, 2025
Publication Details
Type:
Play
Publisher:
Oxford World Classics
Published:
1806
Translated From:
German
Reading Details
Pages:
148
Location:
Lawrence, KS (US)
Content & Notes
First Paragraph:
Uncertain shapes, visitors from the past
At whom I darkly gazed so long ago,
My heart’s mad fleeting visions—now at last
Shall I embrace you, must I let you go?
Again you haunt me: come then, hold me fast!
Out of the mist and murk you rise, who so
Besiege me, and with magic breath restore,
Stirring my soul, lost youth to me once more.