Hermann And Dorothea – V. Polyhymnia (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
DOROTHEA.As the man on a journey, who, just at the moment of sunset,Fixes his gaze once more on the rapidly ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
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 ...
YOUTH.AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee!Or else I needs must, in my wrath, Expel thee!What's ...
HE.CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,—Where I'd fain one moment cease to ...
ONCE more, then, much-wept shadow, thou dost dare Boldly to face the day's clear light,To meet me on fresh blooming meadows ...
I.ARIEL.WHEN in spring the gentle rainBreathes into the flower new birth,When the green and happy plainSmiles upon the sons of ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinionsAn eaglet;A huntsman's arrow came, and reftHis right wing of all motive power.Headlong ...
IN the deepest nights of WinterTo the Muses kind oft cried I:"Not a ray of morn is gleaming,Not a sign ...
FLY, dearest, fly! He is not nigh!He who found thee one fair morn in SpringIn the wood where thou thy ...
GOD gave to mortals birth,In his own image too;Then came Himself to earth,A mortal kind and true. -----BARBARIANS oft endeavourGods for ...
THROUGH field and wood to stray,And pipe my tuneful lay,—'Tis thus my days are pass'd;And all keep tune with me,And ...
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 ...
How, in the light of morning,Round me thou glowest,Spring, thou beloved one!With thousand-varying loving blissThe sacred emotionsBorn of thy warmth ...
THE bed of flowersLoosens amain,The beauteous snowdropsDroop o'er the plain.The crocus opensIts glowing bud,Like emeralds others,Others, like blood.With saucy gesturePrimroses ...
Locks of brown, still bind your captive In the circle of her face! I, beloved sinuous tresses, Naught possess that's worth your grace— But ...
LET mine eye the farewell say,That my lips can utter ne'er;Fain I'd be a man to-day,Yet 'tis hard, oh, hard ...
LITTLE leaves and flow'rets too,Scatter we with gentle hand,Kind young spring-gods to the view,Sporting on an airy band.Zephyr, bear it ...
A DRAGON-FLY with beauteous wingIs hov'ring o'er a silv'ry spring;I watch its motions with delight,—Now dark its colours seem, now ...
THE snow-flakes fall in showers,The time is absent still,When all Spring's beauteous flowers,When all Spring's beauteous flowersOur hearts with joy ...
A POOL was once congeal'd with frost;The frogs, in its deep waters lost,No longer dared to croak or spring;But promised, ...
FAR explore the mountain hollow,High in air the clouds then follow!To each brook and vale the MuseThousand times her call ...
WOULDST thou the blossoms of spring, as well as the fruits of the autumn,Wouldst thou what charms and delights, wouldst ...
IN the deepest nights of Winter To the Muses kind oft cried I: "Not a ray of morn is gleaming, ...
WOULDST thou the blossoms of spring, as well as the fruits of the autumn, Wouldst thou what charms and delights, ...
HE. CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden, 'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,-- Where I'd fain one ...
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
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