THE VISIT. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
IF Venus in the evening sky Is seen in radiant majesty, If rod-like comets, red as blood, Are 'mongst the ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
A YOUNG fig-tree its form lifts high Within a beauteous garden; And see, a goat is sitting by. As if ...
SAY, which Immortal Merits the highest reward? With none contend I, But I will give it To the aye-changing, Ever-moving ...
To break one's word is pleasure-fraught, To do one's duty gives a smart; While man, alas! will promise nought, That ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
SHOULD these songs, love, as they fleet, Chance again to reach thy hand, At the piano take thy seat, Where ...
BUSH and vale thou fill'st again With thy misty ray, And my spirit's heavy chain Castest far away. Thou dost ...
AFTER ANACREON. [The strong resemblance of this fine poem to Cowley's Ode bearing the same name, and beginning "Happy insect! ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me, ...
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about to commence its festive procession. [Written for the birthday of ...
FOR a praiseworthy object we're now gather'd here, So, brethren, sing: ERGO BIBAMUS! Tho' talk may be hush'd, yet the ...
OVER the meadows, and down the stream, And through the garden-walks straying, He plucks the flowers that fairest seem; His ...
THE happiness that man, whilst prison'd here, Is wont with heavenly rapture to compare,-- The harmony of Truth, from wavering ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
[The following explanation is necessary, in order to make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to ...
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