Hermann And Dorothea – II. Terpsichore (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERMANN.THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with ...
HERMANN.THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with ...
DOROTHEA.As the man on a journey, who, just at the moment of sunset,Fixes his gaze once more on the rapidly ...
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 ...
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
WANDERER.YOUNG woman, may God bless thee,Thee, and the sucking infantUpon thy breast!Let me, 'gainst this rocky wall,Neath the elm-tree's shadow,Lay ...
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 ...
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,Feels no dread within his heartAt the tempest or the rain.He whom thou ne'er leavest, ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early,Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish ...
LIKE the vultureWho on heavy morning cloudsWith gentle wing reposingLooks for his prey,—Hover, my song!For a God hathUnto each prescribedHis ...
YOUTH.SAY, sparkling streamlet, whither thou Art going!With joyous mien thy waters now Are flowing.Why seek the vale so hastily?Attend for once, and ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth,Unknown, despised, of humble birth,And on Him many a youth attended(His words they ...
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 ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden;Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me,Pledging me ...
WHO trusts in God,Fears not His rod.——-THIS truth may be by all believed:Whom God deceives, is well deceived.——-HOW? when? and ...
THE soul of manResembleth water:From heaven it cometh,To heaven it soareth.And then againTo earth descendeth,Changing ever.Down from the loftyRocky wallStreams ...
LET the Greek his plastic clayMould in human fashion,While his own creation mayWake his glowing passion;But it is our joy ...
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
THE soul of man Resembleth water: From heaven it cometh, To heaven it soareth. And then again To earth descendeth, ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
[Goethe says of this ode, that it is the only one remaining out of several strange hymns and dithyrambs composed ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me, ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
[The following explanation is necessary, in order to make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth, Unknown, despised, of humble birth, And on Him many a youth attended ...
RHYMED DISTICHS. WHO trusts in ...
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