---
title: "The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther"
author: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
translator: "R. D. Boylan"
title_de: "Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther"
languages: [de, en]
shelf: "Literature"
section: 57 of 89
url: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/57/
cite: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan, The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther, section 57. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/57/"
---

# The Sorrows of Young Werther · Die Leiden des jungen Werther

*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, tr. R. D. Boylan*

German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther · The Sorrows of Young Werther

A young man falls in love with Lotte, who is promised to another, and writes it all to a friend: the letters that made Goethe famous and all Europe weep, in German and English.

> German: Die Leiden des jungen Werther, Hamburger Ausgabe, Band 6 (Project Gutenberg #2407 and #2408, prepared by Michael Pullen, proofread by Dr. Mary Cicora).

> English: The Sorrows of Young Werther, translated by R. D. Boylan, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole (Project Gutenberg #2527). The translator’s preface has no German counterpart in this edition.

## 57. Book II · June 16

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/57/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/goethe-werther-bilingual/57/#p-N

[¶0] June 16

> German: Am 16. Junius

[¶1] Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you!

> German: Ja wohl bin ich nur ein Wandrer, ein Waller auf der Erde! Seid ihr denn mehr?