To The Moon (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
BUSH and vale thou fill'st againWith thy misty ray,And my spirit's heavy chainCastest far away.Thou dost o'er my fields extendThy ...
BUSH and vale thou fill'st againWith thy misty ray,And my spirit's heavy chainCastest far away.Thou dost o'er my fields extendThy ...
MANY good works I've done and ended,Ye take the praise—I'm not offended;For in the world, I've always thoughtEach thing its ...
GOD gave to mortals birth,In his own image too;Then came Himself to earth,A mortal kind and true. -----BARBARIANS oft endeavourGods for ...
WHY pacest thou, my neighbour fair,The garden all alone?If house and land thou seek'st to guard,I'd thee as mistress own.My ...
O THOU well-tried in grief,Grant to thy child relief,And view with mercy this unhappy one!The sword within thy heart,Speechless with ...
TRANSPLANT the beauteous tree!Gardener, it gives me pain;A happier resting-placeIts trunk deserved.Yet the strength of its natureTo Earth's exhausting avarice,To ...
ON bridges small and bridges greatStands Nepomucks in ev'ry state,Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone,Some small as dolls, some ...
HALF vex'd, half pleased, thy love will feel,Shouldst thou her knot or ribbon steal;To thee they're much—I won't conceal;Such self-deceit ...
KNOW'ST thou the land where the fair citron blows,Where the bright orange midst the foliage glows,Where soft winds greet us ...
IF thou wouldst live unruffled by care,Let not the past torment thee e'er;If any loss thou hast to rue,Act as ...
I ONCE was fond of fools,And bid them come each day;Then each one brought his toolsThe carpenter to play;The roof ...
My neighbour, none can e'er deny,Is a most beauteous maid;Her shop is ever in mine eye,When working at my trade.To ...
THE sun, whom Grecians Helms call,His heavenly path with pride doth tread,And, to subdue the world's wide all,Looks round, beneath ...
My maiden she proved false to me;To hate all joys I soon began,Then to a flowing stream I ran,—The stream ...
THROUGH field and wood to stray,And pipe my tuneful lay,—'Tis thus my days are pass'd;And all keep tune with me,And ...
WHEN the primevalAll-holy FatherSows with a tranquil handFrom clouds, as they roll,Bliss-spreading lightningsOver the earth,Then do I kiss the lastHem ...
MY heart is sad,My peace is o'er;I find it neverAnd nevermore.When gone is he,The grave I see;The world's wide allIs ...
WITHIN the chamber, far awayFrom the glad feast, sits Love in dreadLest guests disturb, in wanton play,The silence of the ...
How fair doth NatureAppear again!How bright the sunbeams!How smiles the plain!The flow'rs are burstingFrom ev'ry bough,And thousand voicesEach bush yields ...
DURING a heavy storm it chancedThat from his room a cockney glancedAt the fierce tempest as it broke,While to his ...
As I calmly sat and span,Toiling with all zeal,Lo! a young and handsome manPass'd my spinning-wheel.And he praised,—what harm was ...
OH, would I resembledThe country girls fair,Who rosy-red ribbonsAnd yellow hats wear!To believe I was prettyI thought was allow'd;In the ...
WHAT is by this stir reveal'd?Doth the East glad tidings bring?For my heart's deep wounds are heal'dBy his mild and ...
AS a butterfly renew'd,When in life I breath'd my last, To the spots my flight I wing,Scenes of heav'nly rapture past, Over ...
LEAVE we the pedants to quarrel and strive,Rigid and cautious the teachers to be!All of the wisest men e'er seen ...
IN my boyhood's days so drearI was kept confined;There I sat for many a year,All alone I pined,As within the ...
HEART! my heart! what means this feeling?What oppresseth thee so sore?What strange life is o'er me stealing!I acknowledge thee no ...
DAYS full of rapture,Are ye renew'd ?—Smile in the sunlightMountain and wood?Streams richer ladenFlow through the dale,Are these the meadows?Is ...
IF Venus in the evening skyIs seen in radiant majesty,If rod-like comets, red as blood,Are 'mongst the constellations view'd,Out springs ...
ACT I.CLARA winds a skein, and sings with Brackenburg.THE drum gives the signal!Loud rings the shrill fife!My love leads his ...
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