Hermann And Dorothea – IX. Urania (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
MOTHER AND SON.THUS the men discoursed together; and meanwhile the motherWent in search of her son,--at first in front of ...
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
WATER-FETCHING goes the nobleBrahmin's wife, so pure and lovely;He is honour'd, void of blemish.And of justice rigid, stern.Daily from the ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
THE DAM BREAKS DOWN, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS,THE FLOODS ARISE, THE WATER HOWLS."I'll bear thee, mother, across the swell,'Tis not yet ...
ONCE more, then, much-wept shadow, thou dost dare Boldly to face the day's clear light,To meet me on fresh blooming meadows ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart,Heap up a maiden's lap with gold;The joys of love thou must impart,Wouldst thou ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house one dayI view'd the countless skulls, so strangely mated,And of old times I thought, that now ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus,With clouds of mist,And, like the boy who lopsThe thistles' heads,Disport with oaks and mountain-peaks,Yet thou ...
BE void of feeling!A heart that soon is stirr'd,Is a possession sadUpon this changing earth.Behrisch, let spring's sweet smileNever gladden ...
CHRIST is arisen!Mortal, all hail!Thou, of Earth's prisonDreary and frail,Bursting the veil,Proudly hast risen!CHORUS OF WOMEN.Rich spices and myrrh,To embalm ...
My maiden she proved false to me;To hate all joys I soon began,Then to a flowing stream I ran,—The stream ...
MY heart is sad,My peace is o'er;I find it neverAnd nevermore.When gone is he,The grave I see;The world's wide allIs ...
ACT I.CLARA winds a skein, and sings with Brackenburg.THE drum gives the signal!Loud rings the shrill fife!My love leads his ...
WE young people in the shadeSat one sultry day;Cupid came, and "Dies the Fox"With us sought to play.Each one of ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service,Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to his ...
LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. THOU wert forcibly seized ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house ...
WITH eagerness he drinks the treach'rous potion, Nor stops to rest, by the first taste misled; Sweet is the draught, ...
My maiden she proved false to me; To hate all joys I soon began, Then to a flowing stream I ...
(* The name of a game, known in English as "Jack's alight.") WE young people in the shade Sat one ...
[This song was intended to be introduced in a dramatic poem entitled Mahomet, the plan of which was not carried ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart, Heap up a maiden's lap with gold; The joys of love thou must ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service, Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
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