Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
------ What we sing in company Soon from heart to heart will fly. ----- THE Gesellige Lieder, which I have ...
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
THE Epigrams bearing the title of XENIA were written by Goethe and Schiller together, having been first occasioned by some ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
[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 ...
[This song was also written for Lily. Goethe mentions, at the end of his Autobiography, that he overheard her singing ...
I have taken advantage of the publication of a Second Edition of my translation of the Poems of Goethe (originally ...
[This song was intended to be introduced in a dramatic poem entitled Mahomet, the plan of which was not carried ...
[Goethe quotes the beginning of this song in his Autobiography, as expressing the manner in which his poetical effusions used ...
I DRINK fresh nourishment, new ...
[Written at night on the Kickelhahn, a hill in the forest of Ilmenau, on the walls of a little hermitage ...
[Goethe relates that a remarkable situation he was in one bright moonlight night led to the composition of this sweet ...
(This fine poem is given by Goethe amongst a small collection of what he calls Loge (Lodge), meaning thereby Masonic ...
HEART! my heart! what means this feeling? What oppresseth thee so ...
[Written and sung in honour of the birthday of the Pastor Ewald at the time of Goethe's happy connection with ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron's struggle cease. But one such death remain'd to come; The ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
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