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 ...
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is the ...
EARLY within his workshop here,On Sundays stands our master dear;His dirty apron he puts away,And wears a cleanly doublet to-day;Lets ...
SCENE THE LAST.ANGELS.THE spirit-region's noble limbHath 'scaled the ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.So tow'rd the sun, now fast sinking to rest, the two walk'd together,Whilst he veil'd himself deep in ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung,And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,And ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
MAHADEVA, Lord of earth For the sixth time comes below,As a man of mortal birth,— Like him, feeling joy and woe.Hither loves ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gayFrom frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad songs resoundAcross the verdant mead. Upon ...
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 ...
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,Feels no dread within his heartAt the tempest or the rain.He whom thou ne'er leavest, ...
AFTER these vernal rainsThat we so warmly sought,Dear wife, see how our plainsWith blessings sweet are fraught!We cast our distant ...
ONCE more, then, much-wept shadow, thou dost dare Boldly to face the day's clear light,To meet me on fresh blooming meadows ...
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night,On the tombs that lie scatter'd below:The moon fills the place ...
I.ARIEL.WHEN in spring the gentle rainBreathes into the flower new birth,When the green and happy plainSmiles upon the sons of ...
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave!I then was the servant, but now am the slave; I ...
AFTER THE BATTLE OF BADE, BENEATH THE CANOPY OF HEAVEN.MAHOMET (Speaks).LET the foeman sorrow o'er his dead,Ne'er will they return ...
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
CAN it be! of stars the star,Do I press thee to my heart?In the night of distance far,What deep gulf, ...
SHE behind yon mountain lives,Who my love's sweet guerdon gives.Tell me, mount, how this can be!Very glass thou seem'st to ...
THERE was a wooer blithe and gay,A son of France was he,—Who in his arms for many a day,As though ...
VANISH, dark clouds on high,Offspring of night!Let a more radiant beamThrough the blue ether gleam,Charming the sight!Would the dark clouds ...
ALL my weary days I pass'dSick at heart and poor in purse.Poverty's the greatest curse, Riches are the highest good!And to ...
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