Refugees from the Rhine, driven out by the wars of the French Revolution, pass through a small German town. Hermann, the innkeeper’s shy son, takes them provisions and falls in love with Dorothea, a brave girl among them, and must win his father’s consent and her heart in a single day.
Goethe’s idyll in hexameters, one of the best-loved German poems, in Ellen Frothingham’s translation. Download the free EPUB.