The First Elegy (Karl Heinrich Marx Poems)
Ovid's TristiaFreely RenderedGo, little book, make haste away,Go to the joyful victory seat.I go not with you, I must stay,For ...
Ovid's TristiaFreely RenderedGo, little book, make haste away,Go to the joyful victory seat.I go not with you, I must stay,For ...
A BalladLife seems wed to gaietyAs the dancers tread the measure.Each feels chosen speciallyFor the sacred vows to pleasure.Rosy cheeks ...
A BalladThe wave, soft murmuring,With the wind frolicking,Leaps up into the air.You see it tremble, hover,Tumble and topple over,It is ...
A BalladThe maiden stands so pale,So silent, withdrawn,Her sweet angelic soulIs misery-torn.Therein can shine no ray,The waves tumble over;There, love ...
A BalladAll decked with fineryShe stands, in purple dressed;A satin ribbon coyIs hidden in her breast.And playfully there glowSweet roses ...
Never can I do in peaceThat with which my Soul's obsessed,Never take things at my ease;I must press on without ...
Worlds my longing cannot ever still,Nor yet Gods with magic blest;Higher than them all is my own Will,Stormily wakeful in ...
A BalladThe Knight, he stands at the iron gate,The Maiden so sweet and fair looks out."Dear Knight, however can I ...
A JestAh! that life of all the dead,Hallelujahs that I hear,Make my hair stand on my head,And my soul is ...
A BalladSo strangely in the ear it sings,Like thrilling harp, like trembling strings,It wakes the Minstrel sleeping."Why beats the heart ...
You dance round and aroundIn shimmering rays of light,Your soaring shapes aboundIn number infinite.Here breaks the noblest Soul,The full heart ...
A DithyrambFrom my dreamings I would coaxSoft an image in scent-woven web;I would weave rings passing fairFrom the locks of ...
Frantic, he holds her near,Darkly looks in her eye."Pain so burns you, Dear,And at my breath you sigh."Oh, you have ...
A song to JennyI rose, broke free of all that bound me;"Where would you go?" "A world I'd find me!""Are ...
In flowery grove I lost my wayWhere forest spring showers silver sprayIn murmuring fall, o'erheadThe lofty bay trees spread.They see ...
To me, no Fame terrestrialThat travels far through land and nationTo hold them thrillingly in thrallWith its far-flung reverberationIs worth ...
Ah! Now these pages forth may fly,Approach you, trembling, once again,My spirits lowered utterlyBy foolish fears and parting's pain.My self-deluding ...
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