The Musagetes (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
IN the deepest nights of WinterTo the Muses kind oft cried I:"Not a ray of morn is gleaming,Not a sign ...
IN the deepest nights of WinterTo the Muses kind oft cried I:"Not a ray of morn is gleaming,Not a sign ...
VANISH, dark clouds on high,Offspring of night!Let a more radiant beamThrough the blue ether gleam,Charming the sight!Would the dark clouds ...
ALL my weary days I pass'dSick at heart and poor in purse.Poverty's the greatest curse, Riches are the highest good!And to ...
IN the drizzling mist, with the snow high-pil'd,In the Winter night, in the forest wild,I heard the wolves with their ...
My senses ofttimes are oppress'd,Oft stagnant is my blood;But when by Christel's sight I'm blest,I feel my strength renew'd.I see ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
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 ...
THE ARCHANGELS' SONG.RAPHAEL.THE sun still chaunts, as in old time,With brother-spheres in choral song,And with his thunder-march sublimeMoves his predestined ...
SING no more in mournful tonesOf the loneliness of night;For 'tis made, ye beauteous ones,For all social pleasures bright.As of ...
How happens it that thou art sad,While happy all appear?Thine eye proclaims too well that thouHast wept full many a ...
BUSH and vale thou fill'st againWith thy misty ray,And my spirit's heavy chainCastest far away.Thou dost o'er my fields extendThy ...
WHO never eat with tears his bread,Who never through night's heavy hoursSat weeping on his lonely bed,--He knows you not, ...
HAND in hand! and lip to lip!Oh, be faithful, maiden dear!Fare thee well! thy lover's shipPast full many a rock ...
HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope.Rise up to Cynthia, love, when night is clearest,And say, that as ...
I SLEPT,—'twas midnight,—in my bosom woke,As though 'twere day, my love-o'erflowing heart;To me it seemed like night, when day first ...
DRINK, oh youth, joy's purest rayFrom thy loved one's eyes all day,And her image paint at night!Better rule no lover ...
WHEREFORE drag me to yon glittering eddy, With resistless might?Was I, then, not truly blest already In the silent night?In my secret ...
ALL things give token of thee!As soon as the bright sun is shining,Thou too wilt follow, I trust.When in the ...
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 ...
Now I leave this cottage lowly,Where my love hath made her home,And with silent footstep slowlyThrough the darksome forest roam,Luna ...
ONCE, methought, in the night hours cold,That I saw the moon in my sleep;But as soon as I waken'd, beholdUnawares ...
To the great archer—not to himTo meet whom flies the sun,And who is wont his features dimWith clouds to overrun—But ...
Dornburg, 25th August, 1828.WILT thou suddenly enshroud thee,Who this moment wert so nigh?Heavy rising masses cloud thee,Thou art hidden from ...
THIS page a chain to bring thee burns,That, train'd to suppleness of old,On thy fair neck to nestle, yearns,In many ...
A PLAN the Muses entertain'dMethodically to impartTo Psyche the poetic art;Prosaic-pure her soul remain'd.No wondrous sounds escaped her lyreE'en in ...
No! in truth there's here no lack:White the bread, the maidens black!To another town, next night:Black the bread, the maidens ...
IN the deepest nights of Winter To the Muses kind oft cried I: "Not a ray of morn is gleaming, ...
OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden, Tell me what great sin have I committed, That thou keep'st me to the rack ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND. (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous ...
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