MY GODDESS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
SAY, which Immortal Merits the highest reward? With none contend I, But I will give it To the aye-changing, Ever-moving ...
SAY, which Immortal Merits the highest reward? With none contend I, But I will give it To the aye-changing, Ever-moving ...
Love of my life, you Are lost and I am Young again. A few years pass. The air fills With ...
Like canary dandruff, no, make that yellow pepper, freshly ground and served at your table a dust, large grained, adorning ...
The fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere, While like winged spirits, here and there, The ...
The image of the moon at night All trembling in the ocean lies, But she, with calm and steadfast light, ...
The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest Before it stained a single ...
FEBRUARY, 1917 I never thought again to hear The Oxford thrushes singing clear, Amid the February rain, Their sweet, indomitable ...
Now in the oak the sap of life is welling, Tho' to the bough the rusty leafage clings; Now on ...
Where the slow river meets the tide, a red swan lifts red wings and darker beak, and underneath the purple ...
Morns like these -- we parted -- Noons like these -- she rose -- Fluttering first -- then firmer To ...
Distrustful of the Gentian -- And just to turn away, The fluttering of her fringes Child my perfidy -- Weary ...
I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Now as Heaven is my Lot, they're the Pests of the Nation! Wherever they can come With clankum and blankum ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
This is not bad -- ambling along 44th Street with Sonny Rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft ...
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Remind me not, remind me not, Of those beloved, those vanish'd hours, When all my soul was given to thee; ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I. I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love ...
IN Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the ...
On the fair green hills of Rio There grows a fearful stain: The poor who come to Rio And can't ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
WHILE Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of Empires and the fall of Kings; While quacks of ...
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