DREADED Brama, lord of might! All proceed from thee alone; Thou art he who judgeth right! Dost thou none but ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND. (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous ...
LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. THOU wert forcibly seized ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche, Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured; There he ...
"THE mountain village was destroy'd; But see how soon is fill'd the void! Shingles and boards, as by magic arise, ...
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 ...
THE Epigrams bearing the title of XENIA were written by Goethe and Schiller together, having been first occasioned by some ...
THE father's name ye ne'er shall be told Of my darling unborn life; "Shame, shame," ye cry, "on the strumpet ...
EARLY one day, the Muse, when eagerly bent on adornment, Follow'd a swift-running streamlet, the quietest nook by it seeking. ...
A YOUNG fig-tree its form lifts high Within a beauteous garden; And see, a goat is sitting by. As if ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
[Goethe says of this ode, that it is the only one remaining out of several strange hymns and dithyrambs composed ...
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, ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste, And lo! 'twas done with ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service, Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to ...
[Written and sung in honour of the birthday of the Pastor Ewald at the time of Goethe's happy connection with ...
AH, ye gods! ye great immortals In the spacious heavens above us! Would ye on this earth but give us ...
[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 ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
GOD to his untaught children sent Law, order, knowledge, art, from high, And ev'ry heav'nly favour lent, The world's hard ...
PALM Sunday at the Vatican They celebrate with palms; With reverence bows each holy man, And chaunts the ancient psalms. ...
[The following explanation is necessary, in order to make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation, Who from all time makes making his vocation; The name of ...
RHYMED DISTICHS. WHO trusts in ...
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