Alexis And Dora (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
FARTHER and farther away, alas! at each moment the vesselHastens, as onward it glides, cleaving the foam-cover'd flood!Long is the ...
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 ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
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 ...
WANDERER.YOUNG woman, may God bless thee,Thee, and the sucking infantUpon thy breast!Let me, 'gainst this rocky wall,Neath the elm-tree's shadow,Lay ...
URN and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathenFauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troopChequerd circles ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold unionShown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd;any a name ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress,But soon found I that her door was fasten'd.Yet I had the key safe ...
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?The father it is, with his infant so dear;He holdeth ...
IN the deepest nights of WinterTo the Muses kind oft cried I:"Not a ray of morn is gleaming,Not a sign ...
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,—In my two hands tightly clasp'd I held it,Eagerly the sweet wine sipp'd I ...
Far from the feasting, in the bedroomSits loyal Amor and quakes with dread:What if the guests become too zestful,Break the ...
HAPPY art thou, darling insect,Who, upon the trees' tall branches,By a modest draught inspired,Singing, like a monarch livest!Thou possessest as ...
THIS box, mine own sweet darling, thou wilt findWith many a varied sweetmeat's form supplied;The fruits are they of holy ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche,Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured;There he espied a ...
BETWEEN wheatfield and corn,Between hedgerow and thorn,Between pasture and tree,Where's my sweetheartTell it me!Sweetheart caught INot at home;She's then, thought ...
EVEN this heavenly pair were unequally match'd when united:Psyche grew older and wise, Amor remain'd still a child, (Johann Wolfgang ...
IN the deepest nights of Winter To the Muses kind oft cried I: "Not a ray of morn is gleaming, ...
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,-- In my two hands tightly clasp'd I held it, Eagerly the sweet wine ...
AMOR, not the child, the youthful lover of Psyche, Look'd round Olympus one day, boldly, to triumph inured; There he ...
FAIN had I to-day surprised my mistress, But soon found I that her door was fasten'd. Yet I had the ...
BETWEEN wheatfield and corn, Between hedgerow and thorn, Between pasture and tree, Where's my sweetheart Tell it me! Sweetheart caught ...
[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! ...
EVEN this heavenly pair were unequally match'd when united: Psyche grew older and wise, Amor remain'd still a child, 1789.* ...
THIS box, mine own sweet darling, thou wilt find With many a varied sweetmeat's form supplied; The fruits are they ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
WHO rides there so late through the night dark and drear? The father it is, with his infant so dear; ...
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