Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
April.
... -One that it must fill with pleasure'Mongst so many, dull and blind,One true look at length to find, ...
Playing At Priests.
... * * * *Our guileless child's-sport long was hush'dIn memory's tomb, like some old lay ...
The Muse's Mirror.
... Wilt thou not view, then, the truth, in my mirror so clearly depicted ...
Before A Court Of Justice.
... My child it is, my child 'twill remain,So let your questionings cease!1815 ...
The New Amadis.
... And the world roam'd through,Many a crystal palace built,Crush'd them with like art, ...
To The Countess Granville.
... recalling to the mind the days of old, when a Virgil and a Horace and a Maecenas ...
Premature Spring.
... Aid me, ye Muses,Bliss to sustain!Say what has happen'dSince yester e'en ...
Tame Xenia.
... -- Fain would I learn o'er my shadow to spring! 1827 ...
Presence.
... For then thou o'ershadow'st the lustre, ...
Epiphanias.
... THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,-- ...
Sir Curt's Wedding-journey.
... tealing softly through the grove!And upon the spot she beckons--"Wherefore, love, this speed so wild ...
From An Album Of 1604.
... Rise up to Cynthia, love, when night is clearest, ...
The Rule Of Life.
... Ne'er let thy breast with hate be supplied, ...
Different Threats.
... e threaten'd, "I will shriek!"Then cried I haughtily: "I'll crushThe man that dares come near thee!" ...
The Shepherd's Lament.
... Move onward, ye sheep, then, move onward!Full sad the shepherd must be ...
