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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Proximity Of The Beloved One

Proximity Of The Beloved One

I THINK of thee, whene'er the sun his beams
O'er ocean flings;

I think of thee, whene'er the moonlight gleam…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Proverbs

Proverbs


'TIS easier far a wreath to bind,
Than a good owner fort to find.

I KILL'D a thousand flies overnight,
Yet was w…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Presence

Presence


ALL things give token of thee!
As soon as the bright sun is shining,
Thou too wilt follow, I trust.


When…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Procemion

Procemion


IN His blest name, who was His own creation,
Who from all time makes making his vocation;
The name of Him who makes our faith s…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Phoebus And Hermes

Phoebus And Hermes

DELOS' stately ruler, and Maia's son, the adroit one,

Warmly were striving, for both sought the great prize to obtain.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry

Poetry


GOD to his untaught children sent

Law, order, knowledge, art, from high,
And ev'ry heav'nly favour lent,
The world…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paulo Post Futuri

Paulo Post Futuri

WEEP ye not, ye children dear,

That as yet ye are unborn:
For each sorrow and each tear
Makes the father's hear…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On The New Year

On The New Year

FATE now allows us,
'Twixt the departing
And the upstarting,

Happy to be;
And at the call of

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On The Divan

On The Divan

HE who knows himself and others

Here will also see,
That the East and West, like brothers,
Parted ne'er shall be.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

November Song

November Song

To the great archer--not to him

To meet whom flies the sun,
And who is wont his features dim
With clouds to overrun…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Night Song

Night Song

WHEN on thy pillow lying,

Half listen, I implore,
And at my lute's soft sighing,
Sleep on! what wouldst thou more?

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New Love, New Life

New Love, New Life

HEART! my heart! what means this feeling?

What oppresseth thee so sore?
What strange life is o'er me stealing!

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Neither This Nor That

Neither This Nor That

IF thou to be a slave shouldst will,
Thou'lt get no pity, but fare ill;
And if a master thou wouldst be,
The world …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My Goddess

My Goddess

SAY, which Immortal
Merits the highest reward?
With none contend I,
But I will give it
To the aye-changing,
Ev…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Morning Lament

Morning Lament

OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden,
Tell me what great sin have I committed,
That thou keep'st me to the rack thus fasten'd,

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Minstrel's Book - The Four Favours

Minstrel's Book - The Four Favours

THAT Arabs through the realms of space
May wander on, light-hearted,
Great Allah hath, to all their race,

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mignon

Mignon


Do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow,
in darkened leaves the gold-oranges glow,
a soft wind blows from the pure blue sk…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Minstrel's Book - Song And Structure

Minstrel's Book - Song And Structure

LET the Greek his plastic clay

Mould in human fashion,
While his own creation may
Wake his g…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

May

May


LIGHT and silv'ry cloudlets hover

In the air, as yet scarce warm;
Mild, with glimmer soft tinged over,
Peeps the sun …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

May Song II

May Song II

BETWEEN wheatfield and corn,
Between hedgerow and thorn,
Between pasture and tree,
Where's my sweetheart
Tell it me! …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maiden Wishes

Maiden Wishes

WHAT pleasure to me
A bridegroom would be!
When married we are,
They call us mamma.
No need then to sew,
To…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love's Distresses

Love's Distresses

WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?
Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?
Ah, the lip that erst so many raptures

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love As A Landscape Painter

Love As A Landscape Painter

ON a rocky peak once sat I early,
Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;
Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish texture…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Longing

Longing


WHAT pulls at my heart so?

What tells me to roam?
What drags me and lures me
From chamber and home?

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