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 ...
ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came, Who in Athens lived, but hoped that heFrom a certain townsman there might claim, As ...
SCENE THE LAST.ANGELS.THE spirit-region's noble limbHath 'scaled the ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
I AM now,—what joy to hear it!—Of the old magician rid;And henceforth shall ev'ry spiritDo whate'er by me is bid; I ...
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about tocommence its festive procession.[Written for the birthday of the Duchess ...
THE DAM BREAKS DOWN, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS,THE FLOODS ARISE, THE WATER HOWLS."I'll bear thee, mother, across the swell,'Tis not yet ...
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night,On the tombs that lie scatter'd below:The moon fills the place ...
I.ARIEL.WHEN in spring the gentle rainBreathes into the flower new birth,When the green and happy plainSmiles upon the sons of ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
I.A MASTER of a country schoolJump'd up one day from off his stool,Inspired with firm resolve to tryTo gain the ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
How happens it that thou art sad,While happy all appear?Thine eye proclaims too well that thouHast wept full many a ...
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,His heavenly path with pride doth tread,And, to subdue the world's wide all,Looks round, beneath ...
I. A MASTER of a country school Jump'd up one day from off his stool, Inspired with firm resolve to ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
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 describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
I AM now,--what joy to hear it!-- Of the old magician rid; And henceforth shall ev'ry spirit Do whate'er by ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter'd below: The moon fills ...
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about to commence its festive procession. [Written for the birthday of ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste, And lo! 'twas done with ...
How happens it that thou art sad, While happy all appear? Thine eye proclaims too well that thou Hast wept ...
MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
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