From Faust – Second Part – Scene The Last (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
SCENE THE LAST.ANGELS.THE spirit-region's noble limbHath 'scaled the ...
SCENE THE LAST.ANGELS.THE spirit-region's noble limbHath 'scaled the ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
OH, enter old minstrel, thou time-honour'd one!We children are here in the hall all alone,The portals we straightway will bar.Our ...
MAHADEVA, Lord of earth For the sixth time comes below,As a man of mortal birth,— Like him, feeling joy and woe.Hither loves ...
CHORUS.To the strand! quick, mount the bark!If no favouring zephyrs blow,Ply the oar and nimbly row,And with zeal your prowess ...
Six among the courtiers favour'dFly before the Caesar's fury,Who would as a god be worshipp'd,Though in truth no god appearing,For ...
CALL on the present day and night for nought,Save what by yesterday was brought.——-THE sea is flowing ever,The land retains ...
O'ER me—how I cannot say,—Heav'nly rapture's growing.Will it help to guide my wayTo yon stars all-glowing?Yet that here I'd sooner ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinionsAn eaglet;A huntsman's arrow came, and reftHis right wing of all motive power.Headlong ...
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 ...
WHO trusts in God,Fears not His rod.——-THIS truth may be by all believed:Whom God deceives, is well deceived.——-HOW? when? and ...
LOVE is indeed a glorious prize!What fairer guerdon meets our eyes?—Though neither wealth nor power are thine,A very hero thou ...
OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets,Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence desire!Comfort ...
OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets, Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND. (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous ...
[Composed for the merry party already mentioned, on the occasion of the departure for France of the hereditary prince, who ...
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
[Written and sung in honour of the birthday of the Pastor Ewald at the time of Goethe's happy connection with ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
RHYMED DISTICHS. WHO trusts in ...
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