Welcome And Farewell (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
IN thousand forms mayst thou attempt surprise,Yet, all-beloved-one, straight know I thee;Thou mayst with magic veils thy face disguise,And yet, ...
ACT IV. SCENE 5.SONG OF THE FATES.The deities dread!The mastery hold theyIn hands all-eternal,And use them, unquestioned,What manner they like.Let ...
How happens it that thou art sad,While happy all appear?Thine eye proclaims too well that thouHast wept full many a ...
WHAT pulls at my heart so?What tells me to roam?What drags me and lures meFrom chamber and home?How round the ...
As I calmly sat and span,Toiling with all zeal,Lo! a young and handsome manPass'd my spinning-wheel.And he praised,—what harm was ...
SISTER of the first-born light,Type of sorrowing gentleness!Quivering mists in silv'ry dressFloat around thy features bright;When thy gentle foot is ...
WHO never eat with tears his bread,Who never through night's heavy hoursSat weeping on his lonely bed,--He knows you not, ...
How, in the light of morning,Round me thou glowest,Spring, thou beloved one!With thousand-varying loving blissThe sacred emotionsBorn of thy warmth ...
DRINK, oh youth, joy's purest rayFrom thy loved one's eyes all day,And her image paint at night!Better rule no lover ...
THE bed of flowersLoosens amain,The beauteous snowdropsDroop o'er the plain.The crocus opensIts glowing bud,Like emeralds others,Others, like blood.With saucy gesturePrimroses ...
LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hoverIn the air, as yet scarce warm;Mild, with glimmer soft tinged over,Peeps the sun through fragrant ...
Saw a boy three lilies white,Lilies in the river,Half heart-open to the light,Full of golden arrows bright,Each a silver quiver.Lilies, ...
HAFIS, straight to equal thee,One would strive in vain;Though a ship with majestyCleaves the foaming main,Feels its sails swell haughtilyAs ...
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 ...
'TIS easier far a wreath to bind,Than a good owner fort to find.——-I KILL'D a thousand flies overnight,Yet was waken'd ...
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 ...
THAT Arabs through the realms of spaceMay wander on, light-hearted,Great Allah hath, to all their race,Four favours meet imparted.The turban ...
THE happiness that man, whilst prison'd here,Is wont with heavenly rapture to compare,—The harmony of Truth, from wavering clear,—Of Friendship ...
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave! I then was the servant, but now am the ...
LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hover In the air, as yet scarce warm; Mild, with glimmer soft tinged over, Peeps the ...
SONGS are like painted window-panes! In darkness wrapp'd the church remains, If from the market-place we view it; Thus sees ...
SHE behind yon mountain lives, Who my love's sweet guerdon gives. Tell me, mount, how this can be! Very glass ...
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND. (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous ...
ALL my weary days I pass'd Sick at heart and poor in purse. Poverty's the greatest curse, Riches are the ...
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
THERE was a wooer blithe and gay, A son of France was he,-- Who in his arms for many a ...
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