Hermann And Dorothea – V. Polyhymnia (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is the ...
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
OH, enter old minstrel, thou time-honour'd one!We children are here in the hall all alone,The portals we straightway will bar.Our ...
MAHADEVA, Lord of earth For the sixth time comes below,As a man of mortal birth,— Like him, feeling joy and woe.Hither loves ...
COUNT.I KNOW a flower of beauty rare,Ah, how I hold it dear!To seek it I would fain repair,Were I not ...
YOUTH.SAY, sparkling streamlet, whither thou Art going!With joyous mien thy waters now Are flowing.Why seek the vale so hastily?Attend for once, and ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart,Heap up a maiden's lap with gold;The joys of love thou must impart,Wouldst thou ...
No living atom comes at last to naught! Active in each is still the eternal Thought: Hold fast to Being if thou ...
In a napkin smooth and white, Hidden from all mortal sight, My one talent lies to-night. Mine to hoard, or mine to use; Mine ...
THE waters rush'd, the waters rose,A fisherman sat by,While on his line in calm reposeHe cast his patient eye.And as ...
WITHIN the chamber, far awayFrom the glad feast, sits Love in dreadLest guests disturb, in wanton play,The silence of the ...
IN my boyhood's days so drearI was kept confined;There I sat for many a year,All alone I pined,As within the ...
WHEREFORE drag me to yon glittering eddy, With resistless might?Was I, then, not truly blest already In the silent night?In my secret ...
OH thou token loved of joys now perish'dThat I still wear from my neck suspended,Art thou stronger than our spirit-bond ...
I THINK of thee, whene'er the sun his beams O'er ocean flings;I think of thee, whene'er the moonlight gleams In silv'ry springs.I ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche,Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured;There he espied a ...
THROUGH rain, through snow,Through tempest go!'Mongst streaming caves,O'er misty waves,On, on! still on!Peace, rest have flown!Sooner through sadnessI'd wish to ...
GOD to his untaught children sentLaw, order, knowledge, art, from high,And ev'ry heav'nly favour lent,The world's hard lot to qualify.They ...
A PLAN the Muses entertain'dMethodically to impartTo Psyche the poetic art;Prosaic-pure her soul remain'd.No wondrous sounds escaped her lyreE'en in ...
OH thou sweet maiden fair,Thou with the raven hair,Why to the window go?While gazing down below,Art standing vainly there?Oh, if ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND. (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche, Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured; There he ...
A PLAN the Muses entertain'd Methodically to impart To Psyche the poetic art; Prosaic-pure her soul remain'd. No wondrous sounds ...
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