Answers In A Game Of Questions (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms ...
THE LADY.IN the small and great world too,What most charms a woman's heart?It is doubtless what is new,For its blossoms ...
COULD this early bliss but restConstant for one single hour!But e'en now the humid WestScatters many a vernal shower.Should the ...
THE mason's trade Observe them well,Resembles life, And watch them revealingWith all its strife,— How solemn feelingIs like the stir ...
NOBLE be man,Helpful and good!For that aloneDistinguisheth himFrom all the beingsUnto us known.Hail to the beings,Unknown and glorious,Whom we forebode!From ...
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,—They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay;They like to ...
FLY, dearest, fly! He is not nigh!He who found thee one fair morn in SpringIn the wood where thou thy ...
PAGE.WHERE goest thou? Where?Miller's daughter so fair!Thy name, pray?—MILLER'S DAUGHTER. 'Tis Lizzy.PAGE.Where goest thou? Where?With the rake in thy hand?MILLER'S DAUGHTER.Father's ...
HALLO there! A glass!Ha! the draught's truly sweet!If for drink go my shoes,I shall still have my feet.A maiden and ...
Margaret. Faust.MARGARET.DOST thou believe in God?FAUST. Doth mortal liveWho dares to say that he believes in God?Go, bid the priest a ...
OH prophetic bird so bright,Blossom-songster, cuckoo bight!In the fairest time of year,Dearest bird, oh! deign to hearWhat a youthful pair ...
THE INDIFFERENT.COME to the dance with me, come with me, fair one!Dances a feast-day like this may well crown.If thou ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;The evening soon the world embraced,And ...
BE void of feeling!A heart that soon is stirr'd,Is a possession sadUpon this changing earth.Behrisch, let spring's sweet smileNever gladden ...
A BOY a pigeon once possess'd,In gay and brilliant plumage dress'd;He loved it well, and in boyish sportIts food to ...
CHRIST is arisen!Mortal, all hail!Thou, of Earth's prisonDreary and frail,Bursting the veil,Proudly hast risen!CHORUS OF WOMEN.Rich spices and myrrh,To embalm ...
IN ev'ry hour of joyThat love and wine prolong,The moments we'll employTo carol forth this song!We're gathered in His name,Whose ...
HASTEN thee, Kronos!On with clattering trotDownhill goeth thy path;Loathsome dizziness ever,When thou delayest, assails me.Quick, rattle along,Over stock and stone ...
THE MAIDEN.I'VE seen him before me!What rapture steals o'er me!Oh heavenly sight!He's coming to meet me;Perplex'd, I retreat me,With shame ...
OF all the beauteous waresExposed for sale at fairs,None will give more delightThan those that to your sightFrom distant lands ...
THE ARCHANGELS' SONG.RAPHAEL.THE sun still chaunts, as in old time,With brother-spheres in choral song,And with his thunder-march sublimeMoves his predestined ...
ONCE I held a well-carved brimming goblet,—In my two hands tightly clasp'd I held it,Eagerly the sweet wine sipp'd I ...
So the winter now closed round themWith resistless fury. ScatteringOver all his breath so icy,He inflamed each wind that blitheTo ...
IN thousand forms mayst thou attempt surprise,Yet, all-beloved-one, straight know I thee;Thou mayst with magic veils thy face disguise,And yet, ...
ONCE two persons uninvitedCame to join my dinner table;For the nonce they lived united,Fox and crane yclept in fable.Civil greetings ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation,Who from all time makes making his vocation;The name of Him who ...
THE waters rush'd, the waters rose,A fisherman sat by,While on his line in calm reposeHe cast his patient eye.And as ...
SING no more in mournful tonesOf the loneliness of night;For 'tis made, ye beauteous ones,For all social pleasures bright.As of ...
ACT IV. SCENE 5.SONG OF THE FATES.The deities dread!The mastery hold theyIn hands all-eternal,And use them, unquestioned,What manner they like.Let ...
How happens it that thou art sad,While happy all appear?Thine eye proclaims too well that thouHast wept full many a ...
WHAT pulls at my heart so?What tells me to roam?What drags me and lures meFrom chamber and home?How round the ...
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