One about a hut built out of the ruins of a temple is excellent.[111] ...

The poor fellow told my sister and myself a day ago that he had already been once in love, but that the girl had played with him for a whole year and then deserted him.[112] He believed, however, that she really loved him, but another had appeared on the scene, and he was made a goose of." [Footnote 110: A six hours' walk.] [Footnote 111: The poem, entitled _Der Wanderer_, noted below.] [Footnote 112: The girl meant was no doubt Kaethchen Schoenkopf.] Under the inspiration of these caressing attentions Goethe's muse could not be silent, and in the course of the spring and autumn he threw off a succession of pieces which are the classical expression of the sentimentalism of the period.

To the three ladies-in-chief, under the pseudonyms of Urania, Lila, and Psyche (Caroline Flachsland), he successively addressed odes in which he gave them back their own emotions with interest.

Their inspiration is sufficiently suggested by these lines which conclude the lines entitled _Elysium, an Uranien_:-- Seligkeit! Seligkeit! Eines Kusses Gefuehl.
In all the three poems we have another illustration of Goethe's susceptibility to immediate influences.

Under the inspiration of Friederike's simplicity he had written lyrics which were as pure in form as direct in feeling.