1771 poems

thumb|upright=1.2|Heidenröslein "''''''" (“Little Rose on the Heath”) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1771 during his Strasbourg period, inspired by his relationship with Friederike Brion, the daughter of a local parson in Sessenheim with whom he had a brief but intense love affair. The poem was first published as verse in 1789 by Georg Joachim Göschen. It describes a young man who observes a freshly blooming rose sitting upon a heath and decides to pluck it, despite the rose's warning that it will prick him so that he will never be able to forget the flower. The poem has be