HAPPINESS AND VISION. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
TOGETHER at the altar we In vision oft were seen by thee, Thyself as bride, as bridegroom I. Oft from ...
TOGETHER at the altar we In vision oft were seen by thee, Thyself as bride, as bridegroom I. Oft from ...
SILENCE deep rules o'er the waters, Calmly slumb'ring lies the main, While the sailor views with trouble Nought but one ...
OVER vale and torrent far Rolls along the sun's bright car. Ah! he wakens in his course Mine, as thy ...
THOU who comest from on high, Who all woes and sorrows stillest, Who, for twofold misery, Hearts with twofold balsam ...
WHEN through the nations stalks contagion wild, We from them cautiously should steal away. E'en I have oft with ling'ring ...
OH thou sweet maiden fair, Thou with the raven hair, Why to the window go? While gazing down below, Art ...
THE remembrance of the Good Keep us ever glad in mood. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
FOR a praiseworthy object we're now gather'd here, So, brethren, sing: ERGO BIBAMUS! Tho' talk may be hush'd, yet the ...
IN the drizzling mist, with the snow high-pil'd, In the Winter night, in the forest wild, I heard the wolves ...
A POOL was once congeal'd with frost; The frogs, in its deep waters lost, No longer dared to croak or ...
FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair, On to Oblivion's ocean flow! May no rapt boy recall you e'er, ...
OVER the meadows, and down the stream, And through the garden-walks straying, He plucks the flowers that fairest seem; His ...
"WHAT tuneful strains salute mine ear Without the ...
THE happiness that man, whilst prison'd here, Is wont with heavenly rapture to compare,-- The harmony of Truth, from wavering ...
THROUGH rain, through snow, Through tempest go! 'Mongst streaming caves, O'er misty waves, On, on! still on! Peace, rest have ...
Up in th' mountain I was a-sitting, With the bird there As my guest, Blithely singing, Blithely springing, And building ...
Now I leave this cottage lowly, Where my love hath made her home, And with silent footstep slowly Through the ...
I AM the bard known far and wide, The travell'd rat-catcher beside; A man most needful to this town, So ...
ONCE through the forest Alone I went; To seek for nothing My thoughts were bent. I saw i' the shadow ...
UPON the mead a violet stood, Retiring, and of modest mood, In truth, a violet fair. Then came a youthful ...
My neighbour, none can e'er deny, Is a most beauteous maid; Her shop is ever in mine eye, When working ...
WITHIN the chamber, far away From the glad feast, sits Love in dread Lest guests disturb, in wanton play, The ...
THE snow-flakes fall in showers, The time is absent still, When all Spring's beauteous flowers, When all Spring's beauteous flowers ...
To be like a fish, Brisk and quick, is my wish; If thou cam'st with thy line. Thou wouldst soon ...
(This fine poem is given by Goethe amongst a small collection of what he calls Loge (Lodge), meaning thereby Masonic ...
HEART! my heart! what means this feeling? What oppresseth thee so ...
OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn, Ye by whom the sea-toss'd sailor's lighted, Who with radiant beams the heav'ns ...
As a boy, reserved and naughty; As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty; As a man, for action inclined; As ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service, Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to ...
IF to a girl who loves us truly Her mother gives instruction duly In virtue, duty, and what not,-- And ...
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