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 ...
MOTHER AND SON.THUS the men discoursed together; and meanwhile the motherWent in search of her son,--at first in front of ...
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 ...
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
THE BURGHERS.THUS did the prudent son escape from the hot conversation,But the father continued precisely as he had begun itWhat ...
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 ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
WATER-FETCHING goes the nobleBrahmin's wife, so pure and lovely;He is honour'd, void of blemish.And of justice rigid, stern.Daily from 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 ...
CALL on the present day and night for nought,Save what by yesterday was brought.——-THE sea is flowing ever,The land retains ...
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,Feels no dread within his heartAt the tempest or the rain.He whom thou ne'er leavest, ...
LIKE the vultureWho on heavy morning cloudsWith gentle wing reposingLooks for his prey,—Hover, my song!For a God hathUnto each prescribedHis ...
"OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home,The phantoms of night tow'rd us hastily come,The band of the ...
SEE the rock-born stream!Like the gleamOf a star so brightKindly spiritsHigh above the cloudsNourished him while youthfulIn the copse between ...
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?The father it is, with his infant so dear;He holdeth ...
OH, Magdeberg the town!Fair maids thy beauty crown,Thy charms fair maids and matrons crown;Oh, Magdeburg the town!Where all so blooming ...
PAGE.WHERE goest thou? Where?Miller's daughter so fair!Thy name, pray?—MILLER'S DAUGHTER. 'Tis Lizzy.PAGE.Where goest thou? Where?With the rake in thy hand?MILLER'S DAUGHTER.Father's ...
O'ER field and plain, in childhood's artless days,Thou sprang'st with me, on many a spring-morn fair."For such a daughter, with ...
WEEP ye not, ye children dear,That as yet ye are unborn:For each sorrow and each tearMakes the father's heart to ...
WEEP ye not, ye children dear, That as yet ye are unborn: For each sorrow and each tear Makes the ...
"OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home, The phantoms of night tow'rd us hastily come, The band ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
[For a fine account of the fearful sack of Magdeburg, by Tilly, in the year 1613, see SCHILLER's History of ...
SAY, which Immortal Merits the highest reward? With none contend I, But I will give it To the aye-changing, Ever-moving ...
[Goethe says of this ode, that it is the only one remaining out of several strange hymns and dithyrambs composed ...
[This song was intended to be introduced in a dramatic poem entitled Mahomet, the plan of which was not carried ...
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