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 ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung,And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,And ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall recordWho had in this castle his dwelling,Where now ye are feasting ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily,When scarce the Eastern sky is grey?Hath he just ceased, though cold it be,In yonder ...
OVER vale and torrent farRolls along the sun's bright car.Ah! he wakens in his courseMine, as thy deep-seated smartIn the ...
"OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home,The phantoms of night tow'rd us hastily come,The band of the ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountainA castle built of yore,Where once lurked horse and horsemanIn rear of gate and of ...
"What tuneful strains salute mine earWithout the castle walls?Oh, let the song re-echo here,Within our festal halls!"Thus spake the king, ...
VANISH, dark clouds on high,Offspring of night!Let a more radiant beamThrough the blue ether gleam,Charming the sight!Would the dark clouds ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation,Who from all time makes making his vocation;The name of Him who ...
WHAT pulls at my heart so?What tells me to roam?What drags me and lures meFrom chamber and home?How round the ...
MANY good works I've done and ended,Ye take the praise—I'm not offended;For in the world, I've always thoughtEach thing its ...
KNOW'ST thou the land where the fair citron blows,Where the bright orange midst the foliage glows,Where soft winds greet us ...
MY heart is sad,My peace is o'er;I find it neverAnd nevermore.When gone is he,The grave I see;The world's wide allIs ...
How fair doth NatureAppear again!How bright the sunbeams!How smiles the plain!The flow'rs are burstingFrom ev'ry bough,And thousand voicesEach bush yields ...
AS a butterfly renew'd,When in life I breath'd my last, To the spots my flight I wing,Scenes of heav'nly rapture past, Over ...
LEAVE we the pedants to quarrel and strive,Rigid and cautious the teachers to be!All of the wisest men e'er seen ...
DAYS full of rapture,Are ye renew'd ?—Smile in the sunlightMountain and wood?Streams richer ladenFlow through the dale,Are these the meadows?Is ...
ON yonder lofty mountainA thousand times I stand,And on my staff reclining,Look down on the smiling land.My grazing flocks then ...
MANY good works I've done and ended, Ye take the praise--I'm not offended; For in the world, I've always thought ...
"OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home, The phantoms of night tow'rd us hastily come, The band ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, ...
ON yonder lofty mountain A thousand times I stand, And on my staff reclining, Look down on the smiling land. ...
DAYS full of rapture, Are ye renew'd ?-- Smile in the sunlight Mountain and wood? Streams richer laden Flow through ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
AS a butterfly renew'd, When in life I breath'd my last, To the spots my flight I wing, Scenes of ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
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