Open Table (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
MANY a guest I'd see to-day,Met to taste my dishes!Food in plenty is prepar'd,Birds, and game, and fishes.Invitations all have ...
MANY a guest I'd see to-day,Met to taste my dishes!Food in plenty is prepar'd,Birds, and game, and fishes.Invitations all have ...
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave!I then was the servant, but now am the slave; I ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden;Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me,Pledging me ...
NOUGHT more accursed in war I knowThan getting off scot-free;Inured to danger, on we goIn constant victory;We first unpack, then ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountainA castle built of yore,Where once lurked horse and horsemanIn rear of gate and of ...
'MIDST the noise of merriment and glee,'Midst full many a sorrow, many a care,Charlotte, I remember, we remember thee,How, at ...
AFTER THE BATTLE OF BADE, BENEATH THE CANOPY OF HEAVEN.MAHOMET (Speaks).LET the foeman sorrow o'er his dead,Ne'er will they return ...
SAY, which ImmortalMerits the highest reward?With none contend I,But I will give itTo the aye-changing,Ever-movingWondrous daughter of Jove.His best-beloved offspring.Sweet ...
IN search of prey once raised his pinionsAn eaglet;A huntsman's arrow came, and reftHis right wing of all motive power.Headlong ...
WITHIN a town where parityAccording to old form we see,—That is to say, where CatholicAnd Protestant no quarrels pick,And where, ...
CAN it be! of stars the star,Do I press thee to my heart?In the night of distance far,What deep gulf, ...
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?The father it is, with his infant so dear;He holdeth ...
WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house one dayI view'd the countless skulls, so strangely mated,And of old times I thought, that now ...
I.A MASTER of a country schoolJump'd up one day from off his stool,Inspired with firm resolve to tryTo gain the ...
SHE behind yon mountain lives,Who my love's sweet guerdon gives.Tell me, mount, how this can be!Very glass thou seem'st to ...
IN the deepest nights of WinterTo the Muses kind oft cried I:"Not a ray of morn is gleaming,Not a sign ...
In a napkin smooth and white, Hidden from all mortal sight, My one talent lies to-night. Mine to hoard, or mine to use; Mine ...
THERE was a wooer blithe and gay,A son of France was he,—Who in his arms for many a day,As though ...
"What tuneful strains salute mine earWithout the castle walls?Oh, let the song re-echo here,Within our festal halls!"Thus spake the king, ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus,With clouds of mist,And, like the boy who lopsThe thistles' heads,Disport with oaks and mountain-peaks,Yet thou ...
Do I see a contest yonder?See I miracles or pastimes?Beauteous urchins, five in number,'Gainst five sisters fair contending,—Measured is the ...
VANISH, dark clouds on high,Offspring of night!Let a more radiant beamThrough the blue ether gleam,Charming the sight!Would the dark clouds ...
ALL my weary days I pass'dSick at heart and poor in purse.Poverty's the greatest curse, Riches are the highest good!And to ...
YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near,So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze!Were it in vain to seek ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing,Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast,To his mistress' home repairing,There to hold his wedding feast;When a ...
IN the drizzling mist, with the snow high-pil'd,In the Winter night, in the forest wild,I heard the wolves with their ...
To be like a fish,Brisk and quick, is my wish;If thou cam'st with thy line.Thou wouldst soon make me thine.To ...
OH, Magdeberg the town!Fair maids thy beauty crown,Thy charms fair maids and matrons crown;Oh, Magdeburg the town!Where all so blooming ...
My senses ofttimes are oppress'd,Oft stagnant is my blood;But when by Christel's sight I'm blest,I feel my strength renew'd.I see ...
In this noble ring to-dayLet my warning shame ye!Listen to my solemn voice,—Seldom does it name ye.Many a thing have ...
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