Lily’s Menagerie (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
With fifty years between you and your well-kept wedding vow,The Golden Age, old friends of mine, is not a fable ...
Every October I start to get upset.The factories' hundred throats blow smoke to the sky.The pullets are getting fatfor Christmas ...
October, and eleven after dark: Both mist and night. Among us in the coach Packed heat on which the windows ...
When first I found this forest place More years ago than I can tell,I met a man of alien race ...
I like to see the flowers grow,To see the pansies in a row;I think a well-kept garden's fine,And wish that ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
TO thee, old Cause! Thou peerless, passionate, good cause! Thou stern, remorseless, sweet Idea! Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands! ...
I am reminiscing you; and the little boy who often stole some change from the left pocket of your pants ...
We think of hidden in a white dress among the folded linens and sachets of well-kept cupboards, or just out ...
She lies in her well-kept apartment above the spick and span cathedral in the heart of the walled city above ...
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