Alexis And Dora (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is the ...
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is the ...
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
THE BURGHERS.THUS did the prudent son escape from the hot conversation,But the father continued precisely as he had begun itWhat ...
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
OH, enter old minstrel, thou time-honour'd one!We children are here in the hall all alone,The portals we straightway will bar.Our ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall recordWho had in this castle his dwelling,Where now ye are feasting ...
YOUTH.AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee!Or else I needs must, in my wrath, Expel thee!What's ...
CAN it be! of stars the star,Do I press thee to my heart?In the night of distance far,What deep gulf, ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation,Who from all time makes making his vocation;The name of Him who ...
IF Venus in the evening skyIs seen in radiant majesty,If rod-like comets, red as blood,Are 'mongst the constellations view'd,Out springs ...
WHO trusts in God,Fears not His rod.——-THIS truth may be by all believed:Whom God deceives, is well deceived.——-HOW? when? and ...
WHILE he is mark'd by vision clearWho fathoms Nature's treasures,The man may follow, void of fear,Who her proportions measures.Though for ...
THOU go'st! I murmur—Go! let me murmur.Oh, worthy man,Fly from this land!Deadly marshes,Steaming mists of OctoberHere interweave their currents,Blending for ...
OH, my Theresa dear!Thine eyes, I greatly fear,Can through the bandage see!Although thine eyes are bound,By thee I'm quickly found,And ...
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
WHILE he is mark'd by vision clear Who fathoms Nature's treasures, The man may follow, void of fear, Who her ...
IF Venus in the evening sky Is seen in radiant majesty, If rod-like comets, red as blood, Are 'mongst the ...
OH, my Theresa dear! Thine eyes, I greatly fear, Can through the bandage see! Although thine eyes are bound, By ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall record Who had in this castle his dwelling, Where now ye ...
[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, ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation, Who from all time makes making his vocation; The name of ...
RHYMED DISTICHS. WHO trusts in ...
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