Roman Elegies (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake?All ...
The following lines were suggested by the circumstance of a boat, from the Faro Islands, stopping at Lerwick, on her ...
Oh the long and dreary Winter!Oh the cold and cruel Winter!Ever thicker, thicker, thickerFroze the ice on lake and river,Ever ...
As soon as thou art sick, without delay,For some good clergyman expressly send,Who may for thee to thy Creator pray,And ...
WASHINGTONWHEN dreaming kings, at odds with swift paced time, Would strike that banner down,A nobler knight than ever writ or rhyme With ...
Description of Peru, and of its Productions—Virtues of the People;and of their Monarch, ATALIBA —His love for ALZIRA —Their Nup-tials ...
A FEAST was spread in the Baron's hall,And loud was the merry sound,As minstrels played at lady's call,And the cup ...
Edward the king, the English king, Bestrides his tawny steed, "For I will see if Wales," said he, "Accepts my rule indeed. "Are stream ...
Lobbin Clout, Cuddy, CloddipoleLobbin Clout.Thy younglings, Cuddy, are but just awake,No thrustles shrill the bramble-bush forsakeNo chirping lark the welkin ...
A word to the 35,000 now trampingthe streets of this great city,with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about youat the ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:Brown bread as well as white must be for ...
Agriculture.--The Sire of Gods himselfWill'd not that Tillage should be free from Toil.He first sollicited the restive MoldBy Art: and ...
It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,And the cold bare walls are brightWith garlands of green and holly,And the place ...
WE are two travellers, Roger and I. Roger 's my dog.-Come here, you scamp!Jump for the gentlemen,-mind your eye! Over the table,-look ...
Lo, a castle, tall, lake-mirrored, Ringed around by mountain forms,Roofless, ruined, still defying Summer's rains and winter's storms.Every shattered lifeless window, Every stone ...
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
I.Once, early in the morning, Beelzebub arose,With care his sweet person adorning,He put on his Sunday clothes.II.He drew on a ...
Thou ruler of heaven, of earth, and the main,Of wind, and of weather, of tempests, and rain,O, list to the ...
What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War?Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack ...
A:Not far from hence. From yonder pointed hill,Crowned with a ring of oaks, you may beholdA dark and barren field, ...
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
THERE'S no menagerie, I vow,Excels my Lily's at this minute;She keeps the strangest creatures in it,And catches them, she knows ...
Into the rock the road is cut full deep, At its low ledges village children play,From its high rifts fountains of ...
Virgin celestial! to the Poet's VowsThine Ear incline, consenting ---Health! Good Supreme! Offspring of Heaven! divine,Inestimable Prize! whose Loss, nor ...
Rise with the cock, and clap each flutt'ring wing,In grateful hymns exultingly rejoice —Early to God, each Sunday morning, singWith ...
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
Young Billy Bumble bowt a pig, Soa aw've heeard th' neighbors say;An monny a mile he had to trig One sweltin' summer ...
. 1 GRANDMAMAMy Grandmama was cross to-dayAnd really rather rude:She would not let me out to playUntil I took my food.'Twas horrid ...
Sing, O Muse! the avenging of the Maine,The direful woes, the fate of Spain.A heinous deed t' our ship they ...
WITH A COPY OF WOOLMAN'S JOURNAL.Maiden! with the fair brown tressesShading o'er thy dreamy eye,Floating on thy thoughtful foreheadCloud wreaths ...
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