Hermann And Dorothea – IX. Urania (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
CONCLUSION.O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,Who on his way the excellent youth have hitherto guided,Who ...
MOTHER AND SON.THUS the men discoursed together; and meanwhile the motherWent in search of her son,--at first in front of ...
THE COSMOPOLITE.BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,With the landlord, the worthy divine, and also the ...
FATE AND SYMPATHY."NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty!Still as the grave is the town, clear'd ...
EARLY within his workshop here,On Sundays stands our master dear;His dirty apron he puts away,And wears a cleanly doublet to-day;Lets ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow.WHAT hope of once ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth,Unknown, despised, of humble birth,And on Him many a youth attended(His words they ...
No living atom comes at last to naught! Active in each is still the eternal Thought: Hold fast to Being if thou ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house one dayI view'd the countless skulls, so strangely mated,And of old times I thought, that now ...
I.A MASTER of a country schoolJump'd up one day from off his stool,Inspired with firm resolve to tryTo gain the ...
"What tuneful strains salute mine earWithout the castle walls?Oh, let the song re-echo here,Within our festal halls!"Thus spake the king, ...
OH, would I resembledThe country girls fair,Who rosy-red ribbonsAnd yellow hats wear!To believe I was prettyI thought was allow'd;In the ...
HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope.Rise up to Cynthia, love, when night is clearest,And say, that as ...
THIS box, mine own sweet darling, thou wilt findWith many a varied sweetmeat's form supplied;The fruits are they of holy ...
WHY do I o'er my paper once more bend?Ask not too closely, dearest one, I prayFor, to speak truth, I've ...
WHEN through the nations stalks contagion wild,We from them cautiously should steal away.E'en I have oft with ling'ring and delayShunn'd ...
HAFIS, straight to equal thee,One would strive in vain;Though a ship with majestyCleaves the foaming main,Feels its sails swell haughtilyAs ...
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 ...
'Tis worth not a thought!Can the Koran a creation, then, be?Of that, I know nought!Yet that the book of all ...
A FELLOW says: "I own no school or college;No master lives whom I acknowledge;And pray don't entertain the thoughtThat from ...
I. A MASTER of a country school Jump'd up one day from off his stool, Inspired with firm resolve to ...
WHY do I o'er my paper once more bend? Ask not too closely, dearest one, I pray For, to speak ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house ...
A CHILD refused to go betimes To church like other people; He roam'd abroad, when rang the chimes On Sundays ...
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When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
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