Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How grave thou loookest, loved one! wherefore so? Thy marble image seems a type of thee; Like it, no sign […]

THE hero’s noble shade stands high On yonder turret grey; And as the ship is sailing by, He speeds it […]

RHYMED DISTICHS. [The Distichs, of which these are given as a Specimen, are about forty in number.] WHO trusts in […]

To the grave one day from a house they bore A maiden; To the window the citizens went to explore; […]

ONCE a boy a Rosebud spied, Heathrose fair and tender, All array’d in youthful pride, Quickly to the spot he […]

YE black and roguish eyes, If ye command. Each house in ruins lies, No town can stand. And shall my […]

THE mist is fast clearing. And radiant is heaven, Whilst AEolus loosens Our anguish-fraught bond. The zephyrs are sighing, Alert […]

LEOPOLD, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. [Written on the occasion of the death, by drowning, Of the Prince.] THOU wert forcibly seized […]

[This Ballad is introduced in the Wanderjahre, In a tale called The Foolish Pilgrim.] WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, […]

DELOS’ stately ruler, and Maia’s son, the adroit one, Warmly were striving, for both sought the great prize to obtain. […]

NOUGHT more accursed in war I know Than getting off scot-free; Inured to danger, on we go In constant victory; […]

in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. ‘NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On […]

MIGHTY Brama, now I’ll bless thee! ‘Tis from thee that worlds proceed! As my ruler I confess thee, For of […]

“OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home, The phantoms of night tow’rd us hastily come, The band […]

A FEAST was in a village spread, It was a wedding-day, they said. The parlour of the inn I found, […]

OH, unhappy stars! your fate I mourn, Ye by whom the sea-toss’d sailor’s lighted, Who with radiant beams the heav’ns […]

THIS page a chain to bring thee burns, That, train’d to suppleness of old, On thy fair neck to nestle, […]

WHEN the vine again is blowing, Then the wine moves in the cask; When the rose again is glowing, Wherefore […]

HALLO there! A glass! Ha! the draught’s truly sweet! If for drink go my shoes, I shall still have my […]

IF men are never their thoughts to employ, Take care to provide them a life full of joy; But if […]