II. LEGEND (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THERE lived in the desert a holy man To whom a goat-footed Faun one day Paid a visit, and thus ...
THERE lived in the desert a holy man To whom a goat-footed Faun one day Paid a visit, and thus ...
THERE lived in the desert a holy man To whom a goat-footed Faun one day Paid a visit, and thus ...
"WHAT tuneful strains salute mine ear Without the ...
WEAVE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters ...
Pindaric Ode "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait! Tho' fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Like an army general on parade reviewing the troops in the convoy tooling down the highway into battle I drove ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, ...
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Of nearness to her sundered Things The Soul has special times -- When Dimness -- looks the Oddity -- Distinctness ...
It's coming -- the postponeless Creature -- It gains the Block -- and now -- it gains the Door -- ...
I read my sentence -- steadily -- Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In ...
I cross till I am weary A Mountain -- in my mind -- More Mountains -- then a Sea -- ...
I could die -- to know -- 'Tis a trifling knowledge -- News-Boys salute the Door -- Carts -- joggle ...
Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead Came the Darker Way -- Carriages -- Be Sure -- and Guests -- ...
The Soul has Bandaged moments -- When too appalled to stir -- She feels some ghastly Fright come up And ...
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
Where the rough Caigra rolls the surgy wave, Urging his thunders thro' the echoing cave; Where the sharp rocks, in ...
--And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone, The silent night's the fittest time for moan; But stay this ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
WHEN Januar' wind was blawing cauld, As to the north I took my way, The mirksome night did me enfauld, ...
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ch? la diritta via era smarrita . ...
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size for those warm blanks in speech, ...
XLI I thank all who have loved me in their hearts, With thanks and love from mine. Deep thanks to ...
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