Hermann And Dorothea – IX. Urania (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
HERMANN.THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with ...
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
FATE AND SYMPATHY."NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty!Still as the grave is the town, clear'd ...
DOROTHEA.As the man on a journey, who, just at the moment of sunset,Fixes his gaze once more on the rapidly ...
THE BURGHERS.THUS did the prudent son escape from the hot conversation,But the father continued precisely as he had begun itWhat ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.So tow'rd the sun, now fast sinking to rest, the two walk'd together,Whilst he veil'd himself deep in ...
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 ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily,When scarce the Eastern sky is grey?Hath he just ceased, though cold it be,In yonder ...
LIKE the vultureWho on heavy morning cloudsWith gentle wing reposingLooks for his prey,—Hover, my song!For a God hathUnto each prescribedHis ...
ONCE more, then, much-wept shadow, thou dost dare Boldly to face the day's clear light,To meet me on fresh blooming meadows ...
O'ER me—how I cannot say,—Heav'nly rapture's growing.Will it help to guide my wayTo yon stars all-glowing?Yet that here I'd sooner ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden;Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me,Pledging me ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
I.A MASTER of a country schoolJump'd up one day from off his stool,Inspired with firm resolve to tryTo gain the ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus,With clouds of mist,And, like the boy who lopsThe thistles' heads,Disport with oaks and mountain-peaks,Yet thou ...
YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near,So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze!Were it in vain to seek ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing,Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast,To his mistress' home repairing,There to hold his wedding feast;When a ...
NOBLE be man,Helpful and good!For that aloneDistinguisheth himFrom all the beingsUnto us known.Hail to the beings,Unknown and glorious,Whom we forebode!From ...
OH prophetic bird so bright,Blossom-songster, cuckoo bight!In the fairest time of year,Dearest bird, oh! deign to hearWhat a youthful pair ...
THE MAIDEN.I'VE seen him before me!What rapture steals o'er me!Oh heavenly sight!He's coming to meet me;Perplex'd, I retreat me,With shame ...
BUSH and vale thou fill'st againWith thy misty ray,And my spirit's heavy chainCastest far away.Thou dost o'er my fields extendThy ...
ON bridges small and bridges greatStands Nepomucks in ev'ry state,Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone,Some small as dolls, some ...
HALF vex'd, half pleased, thy love will feel,Shouldst thou her knot or ribbon steal;To thee they're much—I won't conceal;Such self-deceit ...
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,His heavenly path with pride doth tread,And, to subdue the world's wide all,Looks round, beneath ...
THAT thou can't never end, doth make thee great,And that thou ne'er beginnest, is thy fate.Thy song is changeful as ...
PASSION brings reason—who can pacifyAn anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?Where are the hours that fled so swiftly ...
THE soul of manResembleth water:From heaven it cometh,To heaven it soareth.And then againTo earth descendeth,Changing ever.Down from the loftyRocky wallStreams ...
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