Night Thoughts (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn,Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted,Who with radiant beams the heav'ns adorn,But by ...
OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn,Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted,Who with radiant beams the heav'ns adorn,But by ...
How plain and heightWith dewdrops are bright!How pearls have crown'dThe plants all around!How sighs the breezeThro' thicket and trees!How loudly ...
GOD is of the east possess'd,God is ruler of the west;North and south alike, each landRests within His gentle hand.——-HE, ...
To the grave one day from a house they boreA maiden;To the window the citizens went to explore;In splendour they ...
No one talks more than a Poet;Fain he'd have the people know it.Praise or blame he ever loves;None in prose ...
LIST, and in memory bearThese six fond loving pair.Love, when aroused, kept trueRustan and Rad!Strangers approach from farJoseph and Suleika;Love, ...
THAT Arabs through the realms of spaceMay wander on, light-hearted,Great Allah hath, to all their race,Four favours meet imparted.The turban ...
THE stork who worms and frogs devoursThat in our ponds reside,Why should he dwell on high church-towers,With which he's not ...
NOT occasion makes the thief;She's the greatest of the whole;For Love's relics, to my grief,From my aching heart she stole.She ...
WHEN by the brook his strainCupid is fluting,And on the neighboring plainMayors disputing,There turns the ear ere long,Loving and tender,Yet ...
My neighbour's curtain, well I see,Is moving to and fin.No doubt she's list'ning eagerly,If I'm at home or no.And if ...
'Tis worth not a thought!Can the Koran a creation, then, be?Of that, I know nought!Yet that the book of all ...
THE happiness that man, whilst prison'd here,Is wont with heavenly rapture to compare,—The harmony of Truth, from wavering clear,—Of Friendship ...
THE only one whom, Lida, thou canst love,Thou claim'st, and rightly claim'st, for only thee;He too is wholly thine; since ...
HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laurels are twining,Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket is ...
LET the Greek his plastic clayMould in human fashion,While his own creation mayWake his glowing passion;But it is our 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, ...
THOU wert forcibly seized by the hoary lord of the river,—Holding thee, ever he shares with thee his streaming domain,Calmly ...
OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets,Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence desire!Comfort ...
To my garden here translated,Foliage of this eastern treeNourishes the initiatedWith it's meaning's mystery.Is its leaf one self divided,Forked into ...
Go! obedient to my call,Turn to profit thy young days, Wiser make betimes thy breastIn Fate's balance as it sways, Seldom is ...
YESTERDAY brown was still thy head, as the locks of my loved one,Whose sweet image so dear silently beckons afar.Silver-grey ...
EV'RY youth for love's sweet portion sighs,Ev'ry maiden sighs to win man's love;Why, alas! should bitter pain ariseFrom the noblest ...
Lose the day loitering,'twill be the same storyTo-morrow, and the next more dilatory,For indecision brings its own delays,And days are ...
From Heaven there fell upon the foaming waveA timid drop; the flood with anger roared,--But God, its modest boldness to ...
WHAT pleasure to meA bridegroom would be!When married we are,They call us mamma.No need then to sew,To school we ne'er ...
THE sun appears! A glorious sight!The crescent-moon clings round him now.What could this wondrous pair unite?How to explain this riddle? ...
My grief no mortals know,Except the yearning!Alone, a prey to woe,All pleasure spurning,Up tow'rds the sky I throwA gaze discerning.He ...
FOR woman due allowance make!Form'd of a crooked rib was she,—By Heaven she could not straightened be.Attempt to bend her, ...
IT is a fault oneself to praise,And yet 'tis done by each whose deeds are kind;And if there's no deceit ...
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