SHE CANNOT END. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
WHEN unto thee I sent the page all white, Instead of first thereon inscribing aught, The space thou doubtless filledst ...
WHEN unto thee I sent the page all white, Instead of first thereon inscribing aught, The space thou doubtless filledst ...
MIGHTY Brama, now I'll bless thee! 'Tis from thee that worlds proceed! As my ruler I confess thee, For of ...
THOUGH tempers are bad and peevish folks swear, Remember to ruffle thy brows, friend, ne'er; And let not the fancies ...
MANY a guest I'd see to-day, Met to taste my dishes! Food in plenty is prepar'd, Birds, and game, and ...
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,-- They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay; They ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing, Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast, To his mistress' home repairing, There to hold his ...
[From the Morlack.) WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest? Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be? ...
[For a fine account of the fearful sack of Magdeburg, by Tilly, in the year 1613, see SCHILLER's History of ...
SAY, which Immortal Merits the highest reward? With none contend I, But I will give it To the aye-changing, Ever-moving ...
To the great archer--not to him To meet whom flies the sun, And who is wont his features dim With ...
THOU dost complain of woman for changing from one to another? Censure her not: for she seeks one who will ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
THE LADY. IN the small and great world too, What most charms a woman's heart? It is doubtless what is ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gay From frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad ...
I AM the bard known far and wide, The travell'd rat-catcher beside; A man most needful to this town, So ...
MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who ...
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