Venetian Epigrams (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
The Shah Jehan sat with his much-loved wife, The Empress Mahal, one hot summer day,In a cool arbor far from courtly ...
IWhen you are trying to sleep, Solominka,In your enormous bedroom, and are waiting,Sleepless, for the high and weighty ceiling to ...
LEAN BACK, and get some minutes' peace; Let your head leanBack to the shoulder with its fleece Of ...
boss i wentand interviewed the mummyof the egyptian pharaohin the metropolitan museumas you bade me to dowhat homy regal leatherfacesays ...
LAY him beneath his snows, The great Norse giant who in these last days Troubled the nations. Gather decently The ...
Brother artist, help me; come!Artists are a maimed band:I have words but not a hand;Thou hast hands though thou art ...
Can it be true that thou art deadIn the hour of thy youth, in the day of thy strength?Must I ...
Is there a Death? The light of dayAt eventide shall fade away;From out the sod's eternal gloomThe flowers, in their ...
'Tis but a vague, invarious delightAs gold that rains about some buried king.As the fine flakes,When tourists frolickingStamp on his ...
SHE lies raped from her bright sarcophagus,Denuded, stripped, her tomb a thoroughfare;Rome was not when she breathed, and shelies there:For ...
Like whales beached on the sand covered in the dunes each car, like an archaeological dig ancient Egypt a treasure ...
How agreeable it is not to be touring Italy this summer, wandering her cities and ascending her torrid hilltowns. How ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
NAPOLEON shifted, Restless in the old sarcophagus And murmured to a watchguard: "Who goes there?" "Twenty-one million men, Soldiers, armies, ...
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round ...
We crossed to the other side, the burgee of the boat ceased flapping and lagged behind like a dead wing. ...
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