Answers In A Game Of Questions (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms ...
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms ...
NOBLE be man,Helpful and good!For that aloneDistinguisheth himFrom all the beingsUnto us known.Hail to the beings,Unknown and glorious,Whom we forebode!From ...
THE MAIDEN.I'VE seen him before me!What rapture steals o'er me!Oh heavenly sight!He's coming to meet me;Perplex'd, I retreat me,With shame ...
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 ...
ON bridges small and bridges greatStands Nepomucks in ev'ry state,Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone,Some small as dolls, some ...
IN my boyhood's days so drearI was kept confined;There I sat for many a year,All alone I pined,As within the ...
IF Venus in the evening skyIs seen in radiant majesty,If rod-like comets, red as blood,Are 'mongst the constellations view'd,Out springs ...
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 ...
I AM the bard known far and wide,The travell'd rat-catcher beside;A man most needful to this town,So glorious through its ...
DREADED Brama, lord of might!All proceed from thee alone;Thou art he who judgeth right!Dost thou none but Brahmins own?Do but ...
WHILE he is mark'd by vision clearWho fathoms Nature's treasures,The man may follow, void of fear,Who her proportions measures.Though for ...
THE soul of manResembleth water:From heaven it cometh,To heaven it soareth.And then againTo earth descendeth,Changing ever.Down from the loftyRocky wallStreams ...
CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,--the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth;While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the dust.-----WHAT ...
To break one's word is pleasure-fraught,To do one's duty gives a smart;While man, alas! will promise nought,That is repugnant to ...
Blamed us in ev'ry way,And, in abuse of drunkenness,Enough can never say.Men, overcome by drunkenness,Are wont to lie till day;And ...
THOU go'st! I murmur—Go! let me murmur.Oh, worthy man,Fly from this land!Deadly marshes,Steaming mists of OctoberHere interweave their currents,Blending for ...
FITTING perfumes to prepare,And to raise thy rapture high,Must a thousand rosebuds fairFirst in fiery torments die.One small flask's contents ...
LET mine eye the farewell say,That my lips can utter ne'er;Fain I'd be a man to-day,Yet 'tis hard, oh, hard ...
PALM Sunday at the VaticanThey celebrate with palms;With reverence bows each holy man,And chaunts the ancient psalms.Those very psalms are ...
To an apple-woman's stallOnce some children nimbly ran;Longing much to purchase all,They with joyous haste beganSnatching up the piles there ...
OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn,Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted,Who with radiant beams the heav'ns adorn,But by ...
THE happiness that man, whilst prison'd here,Is wont with heavenly rapture to compare,—The harmony of Truth, from wavering clear,—Of Friendship ...
THOU wert forcibly seized by the hoary lord of the river,—Holding thee, ever he shares with thee his streaming domain,Calmly ...
EV'RY youth for love's sweet portion sighs,Ev'ry maiden sighs to win man's love;Why, alas! should bitter pain ariseFrom the noblest ...
I ONCE into a forest farMy maiden went to seek,And fell upon her neck, when: "Ah!"She threaten'd, "I will shriek!"Then ...
BULBUL'S song, through night hours cold,Rose to Allah's throne on high;To reward her melody,Giveth he a cage of gold.Such a ...
ALL kinds of men, both small and great,A fine-spun web delight to create,And in the middle they take their place,And ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service,Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to his ...
As a boy, reserved and naughty;As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty;As a man, for action inclined;As a greybeard, fickle ...
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