Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

THIS box, mine own sweet darling, thou wilt find With many a varied sweetmeat’s form supplied; The fruits are they […]

A FAIR bell-flower Sprang tip from the ground; And early its fragrance It shed all around; A bee came thither […]

(* The name of a game, known in English as “Jack’s Alight.”) WE young people in the shade Sat one […]

How plain and height With dewdrops are bright! How pearls have crown’d The plants all around! How sighs the breeze […]

[Composed, when 74 years old, for a Polish lady, who excelled in Playing on the pianoforte.] PASSION brings reason who […]

THOU who comest from on high, Who all woes and sorrows stillest, Who, for twofold misery, Hearts with twofold balsam […]

IF Venus in the evening sky Is seen in radiant majesty, If rod-like comets, red as blood, Are ‘mongst the […]

[The following explanation is necessary, in order To make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to […]

THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter’d below: The moon fills […]

FLY, dearest, fly! He is not nigh! He who found thee one fair morn in Spring In the wood where […]

THE waters rush’d, the waters rose, A fisherman sat by, While on his line in calm repose He cast his […]

IF thou wouldst live unruffled by care, Let not the past torment thee e’er; If any loss thou hast to […]

MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav’ring winds, I sat with true friends round me, […]

THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of […]

As a boy, reserved and naughty; As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty; As a man, for action inclined; As […]