Editing Lilith (section)

=== In German media ===
[[File:Richard Westall - Faust and Lilith.jpg|thumb|''[[Faust]] and Lilith'' by [[Richard Westall]] (1831)]]
Lilith's earliest appearance in [[Romantic literature|the literature of the Romantic period]] (1789–1832) was in [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]'s 1808 work ''[[Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy]]''.

{{poemquote|'''[[Faust]]:'''
    Who's that there?
'''[[Mephistopheles]]:'''
    Take a good look.
    ''Lilith''.
'''Faust:'''
    Lilith? Who is that?
'''Mephistopheles:'''
    Adam's wife, his first. Beware of her.
    Her beauty's one boast is her dangerous hair.
    When Lilith winds it tight around young men
    She doesn't soon let go of them again.|1992 Greenberg translation, lines 4206–4211}}

After Mephistopheles offers this warning to Faust, he then, quite ironically, encourages Faust to dance with "the Pretty Witch". Lilith and Faust engage in a short dialogue, where Lilith recounts the days spent in Eden.

{{poemquote|'''Faust:''' [dancing with the young witch]
    A lovely dream I dreamt one day
    I saw a green-leaved apple tree,
    Two apples swayed upon a stem,
    So tempting! I climbed up for them.
'''The Pretty Witch:'''
    Ever since the days of Eden
    Apples have been man's desire.
    How overjoyed I am to think, sir,
    Apples grow, too, in my garden.|1992 Greenberg translation, lines 4216 – 4223}}