THE MOUNTAIN CASTLE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of ...
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me, ...
[Written at night on the Kickelhahn, a hill in the forest of Ilmenau, on the walls of a little hermitage ...
'TIS easier far a wreath to bind, Than a good owner fort to find. I KILL'D a thousand flies overnight, ...
THE hero's noble shade stands high On yonder turret grey; And as the ship is sailing by, He speeds it ...
A village Chorus is supposed to be assembled, and about to commence its festive procession. [Written for the birthday of ...
THE LADY. IN the small and great world too, What most charms a woman's heart? It is doubtless what is ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart, Heap up a maiden's lap with gold; The joys of love thou must ...
WHEN on thy pillow lying, Half listen, I implore, And at my lute's soft sighing, Sleep on! what wouldst thou ...
EVEN this heavenly pair were unequally match'd when united: Psyche grew older and wise, Amor remain'd still a child, 1789.* ...
No one talks more than a Poet; Fain he'd have the people know it. Praise or blame he ever loves; ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall record Who had in this castle his dwelling, Where now ye ...
HALF vex'd, half pleased, thy love will feel, Shouldst thou her knot or ribbon steal; To thee they're much--I won't ...
Dornburg, 25th August, 1828. WILT thou suddenly enshroud thee, Who this moment wert so nigh? Heavy rising masses cloud thee, ...
KLOPSTOCK would lead us away from Pindus; no longer for laurel May we be eager--the homely acorn alone must content ...
OH, would I resembled The country girls fair, Who rosy-red ribbons And yellow hats wear! To believe I was pretty ...
AFTER these vernal rains That we so warmly sought, Dear wife, see how our plains With blessings sweet are fraught! ...
[Goethe relates that a remarkable situation he was in one bright moonlight night led to the composition of this sweet ...
DRINK, oh youth, joy's purest ray From thy loved one's eyes all day, And her image paint at night! Better ...
I ONCE was fond of fools, And bid them come each day; Then each one brought his tools The carpenter ...
SEEST thou yon smiling Orange? Upon the tree still hangs it; Already March bath vanish'd, And new-born flow'rs are shooting. ...
How, in the light of morning, Round me thou glowest, Spring, thou beloved one! With thousand-varying loving bliss The sacred ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste, And lo! 'twas done with ...
As a fisher-boy I fared To the black rock in the sea, And, while false gifts I prepared. Listen'd and ...
O'ER field and plain, in childhood's artless days, Thou sprang'st with me, on many a spring-morn fair. "For such a ...
WHAT pulls at my heart so? What tells me to roam? What drags me and lures me From chamber and ...
In this noble ring to-day Let my warning shame ye! Listen to my solemn voice,-- Seldom does it name ye. ...
A DRUID. SWEET smiles the May! The forest gay From frost and ice is freed; No snow is found, Glad ...
Two words there are, both short, of beauty rare, Whose sounds our lips so often love to frame, But which ...
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