WARNING. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers; Go, and complete thou the task, that to the day ...
WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers; Go, and complete thou the task, that to the day ...
[Composed for the merry party already mentioned, on the occasion of the departure for France of the hereditary prince, who ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
WHEN on thy pillow lying, Half listen, I implore, And at my lute's soft sighing, Sleep on! what wouldst thou ...
(This fine poem is given by Goethe amongst a small collection of what he calls Loge (Lodge), meaning thereby Masonic ...
(Not in the English sense of the word, but the German, where it has the meaning of betrothed.) I SLEPT,--'twas ...
Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade, Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade; ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose On this afflicted prince; fall like a ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
These tiny loiterers on the barley's beard, And happy units of a numerous herd Of playfellows, the laughing Summer brings, ...
Music I love - but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
In anguish of my heart replete with woes, And wasting pains, which best my body knows, In tossing slumbers on ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne'er forget; And though we ne'er may meet again, ...
THEY say to me, thy clear and crystal eyes: "Why dost thou love me so, strange lover mine?" Be sweet, ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
HERE awa, there awa, wandering Willie, Now tired with wandering, haud awa hame; Come to my bosom, my ae only ...
WHY, why tell thy lover Bliss he never must enjoy"? Why, why undeceive him, And give all his hopes the ...
HERE awa, there awa, wandering Willie, Here awa, there awa, haud awa hame; Come to my bosom, my ain only ...
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like ...
Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul is dead that slumbers, And ...
OUT over the Forth, I look to the North; But what is the north and its Highlands to me? The ...
STILL anxious to secure your partial favour, And not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, A Prologue, Epilogue, or ...
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