NIGHT THOUGHTS. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn, Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted, Who with radiant beams the heav'ns ...
OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn, Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted, Who with radiant beams the heav'ns ...
As a boy, reserved and naughty; As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty; As a man, for action inclined; As ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service, Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to ...
How happens it that thou art sad, While happy all appear? Thine eye proclaims too well that thou Hast wept ...
ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state, Of ...
LET mine eye the farewell say, That my lips can utter ne'er; Fain I'd ...
THE MAIDEN. I'VE seen him before me! What rapture steals o'er me! Oh heavenly sight! He's coming to meet me; ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
PALM Sunday at the Vatican They celebrate with palms; With reverence bows each holy man, And chaunts the ancient psalms. ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth, Unknown, despised, of humble birth, And on Him many a youth attended ...
Oh, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn, Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted, Who with radiant beams the heav'ns ...
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