Hermann And Dorothea – II. Terpsichore (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
HERMANN.THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with ...
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 ...
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 ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
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 ...
Six among the courtiers favour'dFly before the Caesar's fury,Who would as a god be worshipp'd,Though in truth no god appearing,For ...
BRETHREN, what bequest to you should comeFrom the lowly poor man, going home,Whom ye younger ones with patience tended,Whose last ...
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,Feels no dread within his heartAt the tempest or the rain.He whom thou ne'er leavest, ...
WITHIN the chamber, far awayFrom the glad feast, sits Love in dreadLest guests disturb, in wanton play,The silence of the ...
How fair doth NatureAppear again!How bright the sunbeams!How smiles the plain!The flow'rs are burstingFrom ev'ry bough,And thousand voicesEach bush yields ...
WE young people in the shadeSat one sultry day;Cupid came, and "Dies the Fox"With us sought to play.Each one of ...
WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?Ah, the lip that erst ...
THE DOUBTERS.YE love, and sonnets write! Fate's strange behest!The heart, its hidden meaning to declare,Must seek for rhymes, uniting pair ...
Locks of brown, still bind your captive In the circle of her face! I, beloved sinuous tresses, Naught possess that's worth your grace— But ...
ONCE, methought, in the night hours cold,That I saw the moon in my sleep;But as soon as I waken'd, beholdUnawares ...
THE DOUBTERS. YE love, and sonnets write! Fate's strange behest! The heart, its hidden meaning to declare, Must seek for ...
A PLAN the Muses entertain'd Methodically to impart To Psyche the poetic art; Prosaic-pure her soul remain'd. No wondrous sounds ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
(* The name of a game, known in English as "Jack's alight.") WE young people in the shade Sat one ...
WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to? Who would pity me that heard my sorrows? Ah, the lip ...
[Goethe says of this ode, that it is the only one remaining out of several strange hymns and dithyrambs composed ...
WITHIN the chamber, far away From the glad feast, sits Love in dread Lest guests disturb, in wanton play, The ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
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