The Pariah – The Pariah’s Prayer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
DREADED Brama, lord of might!All proceed from thee alone;Thou art he who judgeth right!Dost thou none but Brahmins own?Do but ...
DREADED Brama, lord of might!All proceed from thee alone;Thou art he who judgeth right!Dost thou none but Brahmins own?Do but ...
A YOUNG fig-tree its form lifts highWithin a beauteous garden;And see, a goat is sitting by.As if he were its ...
HAPPY art thou, darling insect,Who, upon the trees' tall branches,By a modest draught inspired,Singing, like a monarch livest!Thou possessest as ...
IN Paradise while moonbeams play'd,Jehovah found, in slumber deep,Adam fast sunk; He gently laidEve near him,—she, too, fell asleep.There lay ...
IN Paradise while moonbeams play'd,Jehovah found, in slumber deep,Adam fast sunk; He gently laidEve near him,--she, too, fell asleep.There lay ...
THE father's name ye ne'er shall be toldOf my darling unborn life;"Shame, shame," ye cry, "on the strumpet bold!"Yet I'm ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche,Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured;There he espied a ...
PALM Sunday at the VaticanThey celebrate with palms;With reverence bows each holy man,And chaunts the ancient psalms.Those very psalms are ...
"Incense is hut a tribute for the gods,—To mortals 'tis but poison."THE smoke that from thine altar blows,Can it the ...
WHEN in the dance of the Nymphs, in the moonlight so holy assembled,Mingle the Graces, down from Olympus in secret ...
EARLY one day, the Muse, when eagerly bent on adornment,Follow'd a swift-running streamlet, the quietest nook by it seeking.Quickly and ...
SONGS are like painted window-panes!In darkness wrapp'd the church remains,If from the market-place we view it;Thus sees the ignoramus through ...
In the Koran with strange delightA peacock's feather met my sight:Thou'rt welcome in this holy place,The highest prize on earth's ...
GOD is of the east possess'd,God is ruler of the west;North and south alike, each landRests within His gentle hand.——-HE, ...
'Tis worth not a thought!Can the Koran a creation, then, be?Of that, I know nought!Yet that the book of all ...
THOU wert forcibly seized by the hoary lord of the river,—Holding thee, ever he shares with thee his streaming domain,Calmly ...
OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets,Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence desire!Comfort ...
From Heaven there fell upon the foaming waveA timid drop; the flood with anger roared,--But God, its modest boldness to ...
"THE mountain village was destroy'd;But see how soon is fill'd the void!Shingles and boards, as by magic arise,The babe in ...
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 ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service,Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to his ...
EROS, what mean'st thou by this? In each of thine hands is an hourglass!What, oh thou frivolous god! twofold thy ...
HA, I am the lord of earth! The noble,Who're in my service, love me.Ha, I am the lord of earth! ...
AH, ye gods! ye great immortalsIn the spacious heavens above us!Would ye on this earth but give usSteadfast minds and ...
I. "Incense is hut a tribute for the gods,-- To mortals 'tis but poison." THE smoke that from thine altar ...
WHEN in the dance of the Nymphs, in the moonlight so holy assembled, Mingle the Graces, down from Olympus in ...
HA, I am the lord of earth! The noble, Who're in my service, love me. Ha, I am the lord ...
EROS, what mean'st thou by this? In each of thine hands is an hourglass! What, oh thou frivolous god! twofold ...
SONGS are like painted window-panes! In darkness wrapp'd the church remains, If from the market-place we view it; Thus sees ...
OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets, Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence ...
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