Alexis And Dora (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is the ...
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 ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
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 ...
YOUTH.AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee!Or else I needs must, in my wrath, Expel thee!What's ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress,But soon found I that her door was fasten'd.Yet I had the key safe ...
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?The father it is, with his infant so dear;He holdeth ...
FLY, dearest, fly! He is not nigh!He who found thee one fair morn in SpringIn the wood where thou thy ...
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 ...
A BOY a pigeon once possess'd,In gay and brilliant plumage dress'd;He loved it well, and in boyish sportIts food to ...
WHO trusts in God,Fears not His rod.——-THIS truth may be by all believed:Whom God deceives, is well deceived.——-HOW? when? and ...
How, in the light of morning,Round me thou glowest,Spring, thou beloved one!With thousand-varying loving blissThe sacred emotionsBorn of thy warmth ...
TELL me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking;For ye're saying something sweet,Fit the ravish'd ear to greet,Eloquently, softly speaking.Yet I see ...
HAFIS, straight to equal thee,One would strive in vain;Though a ship with majestyCleaves the foaming main,Feels its sails swell haughtilyAs ...
"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 ...
YE black and roguish eyes,If ye command.Each house in ruins lies,No town can stand.And shall my bosom's chain,—This plaster wall,To ...
YE black and roguish eyes, If ye command. Each house in ruins lies, No town can stand. And shall my ...
A BOY a pigeon once possess'd, In gay and brilliant plumage dress'd; He loved it well, and in boyish sport ...
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
"THE mountain village was destroy'd; But see how soon is fill'd the void! Shingles and boards, as by magic arise, ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
WITH eagerness he drinks the treach'rous potion, Nor stops to rest, by the first taste misled; Sweet is the draught, ...
TELL me, eyes, what 'tis ye're seeking; For ye're saying something sweet, Fit the ravish'd ear to greet, Eloquently, softly ...
FLY, dearest, fly! He is not nigh! He who found thee one fair morn in Spring In the wood where ...
How, in the light of morning, Round me thou glowest, Spring, thou beloved one! With thousand-varying loving bliss The sacred ...
[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 ...
WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; ...
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