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 ...
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 ...
Six among the courtiers favour'dFly before the Caesar's fury,Who would as a god be worshipp'd,Though in truth no god appearing,For ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall recordWho had in this castle his dwelling,Where now ye are feasting ...
BRETHREN, what bequest to you should comeFrom the lowly poor man, going home,Whom ye younger ones with patience tended,Whose last ...
COUNT.I KNOW a flower of beauty rare,Ah, how I hold it dear!To seek it I would fain repair,Were I not ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early,Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth,Unknown, despised, of humble birth,And on Him many a youth attended(His words they ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart,Heap up a maiden's lap with gold;The joys of love thou must impart,Wouldst thou ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinionsAn eaglet;A huntsman's arrow came, and reftHis right wing of all motive power.Headlong ...
WITHIN a town where parityAccording to old form we see,—That is to say, where CatholicAnd Protestant no quarrels pick,And where, ...
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?The father it is, with his infant so dear;He holdeth ...
In a napkin smooth and white, Hidden from all mortal sight, My one talent lies to-night. Mine to hoard, or mine to use; Mine ...
"What tuneful strains salute mine earWithout the castle walls?Oh, let the song re-echo here,Within our festal halls!"Thus spake the king, ...
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,—They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay;They like to ...
My neighbour, none can e'er deny,Is a most beauteous maid;Her shop is ever in mine eye,When working at my trade.To ...
Far from the feasting, in the bedroomSits loyal Amor and quakes with dread:What if the guests become too zestful,Break the ...
IN Thule lived a monarch,Still faithful to the grave,To whom his dying mistressA golden goblet gave.Beyond all price he deem'd ...
THE father's name ye ne'er shall be toldOf my darling unborn life;"Shame, shame," ye cry, "on the strumpet bold!"Yet I'm ...
DELOS' stately ruler, and Maia's son, the adroit one,Warmly were striving, for both sought the great prize to obtain.Hermes the ...
BULBUL'S song, through night hours cold,Rose to Allah's throne on high;To reward her melody,Giveth he a cage of gold.Such a ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,-- They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay; They ...
WITHIN a town where parity According to old form we see,-- That is to say, where Catholic And Protestant no ...
THE father's name ye ne'er shall be told Of my darling unborn life; "Shame, shame," ye cry, "on the strumpet ...
SONG OF THE IMPRISONED COUNT. COUNT. I KNOW a flower of beauty rare, Ah, how I hold it dear! To ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart, Heap up a maiden's lap with gold; The joys of love thou must ...
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