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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My peace is gone, My heart is sore: I never shall find it, Ah, nevermore!”
Faust, Part One, Scene XV, Margaret's Room (at the spinning-wheel), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)
Alone at her wheel, Gretchen sings of the love for Faust that has taken her peace; Schubert set the song in 1814.
Citation: "My peace is gone, My heart is sore: I never shall find it, Ah, nevermore!" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Scene XV, Margaret's Room (at the spinning-wheel), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q8)
Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.
