BALLAD OF THE BANISHED AND RETURNING COUNT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
I'm not Stupid What!?! What did she just say? Evan, can you confirm it? "I'm not stupid; I'm Greek." Oh ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
The sound of the closing outside door was all. You made no sound in the grass with your footfall, As ...
Repeatedly, that sturdy stump in me bears up like stone, beneath some ritual I see: the blinding axe swings up, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
The Fact that Earth is Heaven -- Whether Heaven is Heaven or not If not an Affidavit Of that specific ...
Her sweet Weight on my Heart a Night Had scarcely deigned to lie -- When, stirring, for Belief's delight, My ...
Had I presumed to hope -- The loss had been to Me A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake -- ...
Conscious am I in my Chamber, Of a shapeless friend -- He doth not attest by Posture -- Nor Confirm ...
An ignorance a Sunset Confer upon the Eye -- Of Territory -- Color -- Circumference -- Decay -- Its Amber ...
Severer Service of myself I -- hastened to demand To fill the awful Vacuum Your life had left behind -- ...
Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord, And cheer me from the north; Blow on the treasures of thy word, ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
(An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation) Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire With secret sperm ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
(An Oath wrtitten during the Dawn Meditation) Aiwaz! Confirm my troth with thee ! my will inspire With secret sperm ...
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
The heavy mahogany door with its wrought-iron screen Shuts. And the sound is rich, sympathetic, discreet. The sun still shines ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
SIT stilla worda breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, ...
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Alone on the railroad track I walked with pounding heart. The ties were too close together or maybe too far ...
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