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 ...
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 ...
EARLY within his workshop here,On Sundays stands our master dear;His dirty apron he puts away,And wears a cleanly doublet to-day;Lets ...
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gayFrom frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad songs resoundAcross the verdant mead. Upon ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall recordWho had in this castle his dwelling,Where now ye are feasting ...
BRETHREN, what bequest to you should comeFrom the lowly poor man, going home,Whom ye younger ones with patience tended,Whose last ...
CAN it be! of stars the star,Do I press thee to my heart?In the night of distance far,What deep gulf, ...
COULD this early bliss but restConstant for one single hour!But e'en now the humid WestScatters many a vernal shower.Should the ...
PAGE.WHERE goest thou? Where?Miller's daughter so fair!Thy name, pray?—MILLER'S DAUGHTER. 'Tis Lizzy.PAGE.Where goest thou? Where?With the rake in thy hand?MILLER'S DAUGHTER.Father's ...
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 ...
IN ev'ry hour of joyThat love and wine prolong,The moments we'll employTo carol forth this song!We're gathered in His name,Whose ...
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, ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation,Who from all time makes making his vocation;The name of Him who ...
ON bridges small and bridges greatStands Nepomucks in ev'ry state,Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone,Some small as dolls, some ...
Two words there 'are, both short, of beauty rare,Whose sounds our lips so often love to frame,But which with clearness ...
ONCE, methought, in the night hours cold,That I saw the moon in my sleep;But as soon as I waken'd, beholdUnawares ...
WOULDST thou the blossoms of spring, as well as the fruits of the autumn,Wouldst thou what charms and delights, wouldst ...
WOULDST thou the blossoms of spring, as well as the fruits of the autumn, Wouldst thou what charms and delights, ...
COULD this early bliss but rest Constant for one single hour! But e'en now the humid West Scatters many a ...
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
(* The name of a game, known in English as "Jack's alight.") WE young people in the shade Sat one ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
AFTER ANACREON. [The strong resemblance of this fine poem to Cowley's Ode bearing the same name, and beginning "Happy insect! ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall record Who had in this castle his dwelling, Where now ye ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gay From frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad ...
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