Hermann And Dorothea – VI. Klio (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE AGE.WHEN the pastor ask'd the foreign magistrate questions,What the people had suffer'd, how long from their homes they had ...
THE AGE.WHEN the pastor ask'd the foreign magistrate questions,What the people had suffer'd, how long from their homes they had ...
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
HERMANN.THEN when into the room the well-built son made his entry,Straightway with piercing glances the minister eyed him intently,And with ...
FATE AND SYMPATHY."NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty!Still as the grave is the town, clear'd ...
DOROTHEA.As the man on a journey, who, just at the moment of sunset,Fixes his gaze once more on the rapidly ...
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is 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 ...
SCENE THE LAST.ANGELS.THE spirit-region's noble limbHath 'scaled the ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung,And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,And ...
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
MAHADEVA, Lord of earth For the sixth time comes below,As a man of mortal birth,— Like him, feeling joy and woe.Hither loves ...
CHORUS.To the strand! quick, mount the bark!If no favouring zephyrs blow,Ply the oar and nimbly row,And with zeal your prowess ...
He whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius,Feels no dread within his heartAt the tempest or the rain.He whom thou ne'er leavest, ...
LEADER.LET no cares now hover o'er usLet the wine unsparing run!Wilt thou swell our merry chorus?Hast thou all thy duty ...
LIKE the vultureWho on heavy morning cloudsWith gentle wing reposingLooks for his prey,—Hover, my song!For a God hathUnto each prescribedHis ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth,Unknown, despised, of humble birth,And on Him many a youth attended(His words they ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart,Heap up a maiden's lap with gold;The joys of love thou must impart,Wouldst thou ...
SEE the rock-born stream!Like the gleamOf a star so brightKindly spiritsHigh above the cloudsNourished him while youthfulIn the copse between ...
I.ARIEL.WHEN in spring the gentle rainBreathes into the flower new birth,When the green and happy plainSmiles upon the sons of ...
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
WITHIN a town where parityAccording to old form we see,—That is to say, where CatholicAnd Protestant no quarrels pick,And where, ...
SHE behind yon mountain lives,Who my love's sweet guerdon gives.Tell me, mount, how this can be!Very glass thou seem'st to ...
My senses ofttimes are oppress'd,Oft stagnant is my blood;But when by Christel's sight I'm blest,I feel my strength renew'd.I see ...
COULD this early bliss but restConstant for one single hour!But e'en now the humid WestScatters many a vernal shower.Should the ...
Margaret. Faust.MARGARET.DOST thou believe in God?FAUST. Doth mortal liveWho dares to say that he believes in God?Go, bid the priest a ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
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