Hermann And Dorothea – VI. Klio (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE AGE.WHEN the pastor ask'd the foreign magistrate questions,What the people had suffer'd, how long from their homes they had ...
THE AGE.WHEN the pastor ask'd the foreign magistrate questions,What the people had suffer'd, how long from their homes they had ...
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 ...
DOROTHEA.As the man on a journey, who, just at the moment of sunset,Fixes his gaze once more on the rapidly ...
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 ...
SCENE THE LAST.ANGELS.THE spirit-region's noble limbHath 'scaled the ...
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.So tow'rd the sun, now fast sinking to rest, the two walk'd together,Whilst he veil'd himself deep in ...
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 ...
WATER-FETCHING goes the nobleBrahmin's wife, so pure and lovely;He is honour'd, void of blemish.And of justice rigid, stern.Daily from the ...
WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest?Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be?Were it snow, ere this ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gayFrom frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad songs resoundAcross the verdant mead. Upon ...
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 ...
THE DAM BREAKS DOWN, THE ICE-PLAIN GROWLS,THE FLOODS ARISE, THE WATER HOWLS."I'll bear thee, mother, across the swell,'Tis not yet ...
ONCE more, then, much-wept shadow, thou dost dare Boldly to face the day's clear light,To meet me on fresh blooming meadows ...
MANY a guest I'd see to-day,Met to taste my dishes!Food in plenty is prepar'd,Birds, and game, and fishes.Invitations all have ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing,Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast,To his mistress' home repairing,There to hold his wedding feast;When a ...
OH, Magdeberg the town!Fair maids thy beauty crown,Thy charms fair maids and matrons crown;Oh, Magdeburg the town!Where all so blooming ...
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms ...
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,—They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay;They like to ...
CHRIST is arisen!Mortal, all hail!Thou, of Earth's prisonDreary and frail,Bursting the veil,Proudly hast risen!CHORUS OF WOMEN.Rich spices and myrrh,To embalm ...
I AM the bard known far and wide,The travell'd rat-catcher beside;A man most needful to this town,So glorious through its ...
WHEN unto thee I sent the page all white,Instead of first thereon inscribing aught,The space thou doubtless filledst up in ...
To the great archer—not to himTo meet whom flies the sun,And who is wont his features dimWith clouds to overrun—But ...
MIGHTY Brama, now I'll bless thee!'Tis from thee that worlds proceed!As my ruler I confess thee,For of all thou takest ...
THOUGH tempers are bad and peevish folks swear,Remember to ruffle thy brows, friend, ne'er;And let not the fancies of women ...
THOU dost complain of woman for changing from one to another?Censure her not: for she seeks one who will constant ...
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