SONG OF FELLOWSHIP. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[Written and sung in honour of the birthday of the Pastor Ewald at the time of Goethe's happy connection with ...
[Written and sung in honour of the birthday of the Pastor Ewald at the time of Goethe's happy connection with ...
OF all the beauteous wares Exposed for sale at fairs, None will give more delight Than those that to your ...
How happens it that thou art sad, While happy all appear? Thine eye proclaims too well that thou Hast wept ...
PAGE. WHERE goest thou? Where? Miller's daughter so fair! Thy name, pray?-- MILLER'S DAUGHTER. 'Tis Lizzy. PAGE. Where goest thou? ...
MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who ...
ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state, Of ...
DELOS' stately ruler, and Maia's son, the adroit one, Warmly were striving, for both sought the great prize to obtain. ...
THE bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like ...
HALLO there! A glass! Ha! the draught's truly sweet! If for drink go my shoes, I shall still have my ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
THE INDIFFERENT. COME to the dance with me, come with me, fair one! Dances a feast-day like this may well ...
THIS box, mine own sweet darling, thou wilt find With many a varied sweetmeat's form supplied; The fruits are they ...
AH, ye gods! ye great immortals In the spacious heavens above us! Would ye on this earth but give us ...
SOUND, sweet song, from some far land, Sighing softly close at hand, Now of joy, and now of woe! Stars ...
LET mine eye the farewell say, That my lips can utter ne'er; Fain I'd ...
THE MAIDEN. I'VE seen him before me! What rapture steals o'er me! Oh heavenly sight! He's coming to meet me; ...
LEAVE we the pedants to quarrel and strive, Rigid and cautious the teachers to be! All of the wisest men ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman's arrow came, and reft His right wing of ...
(* This ballad is also introduced in Faust, where it is sung by Margaret.) IN Thule lived a monarch, Still ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
WHEN the primeval All-holy Father Sows with a tranquil hand From clouds, as they roll, Bliss-spreading lightnings Over the earth, ...
GOD to his untaught children sent Law, order, knowledge, art, from high, And ev'ry heav'nly favour lent, The world's hard ...
----- Poet's art is ever able To endow with truth mere fable. ---- MIGNON. [This universally known poem is also ...
(Not in the English sense of the word, but the German, where it has the meaning of betrothed.) I SLEPT,--'twas ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
THE waters rush'd, the waters rose, A fisherman sat by, While on his line in calm repose He cast his ...
A FEAST was in a village spread,-- It was a wedding-day, they said. The parlour of the inn I found, ...
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