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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Suleika - Love For Love

Book Of Suleika - Love For Love

LOVE for love, and moments sweet,

Lips returning kiss for kiss,
Word for word, and eyes that meet;

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Suleika - Suleika 02

Book Of Suleika - Suleika 02

WHAT is by this stir reveal'd?

Doth the East glad tidings bring?
For my heart's deep wounds are heal'd

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Suleika - Hatem 03

Book Of Suleika - Hatem 03

HOLD me, locks, securely caught

In the circle of her face!
Dear brown serpents, I have nought
To repay…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Suleika - Hatem 01

Book Of Suleika - Hatem 01

NOT occasion makes the thief;

She's the greatest of the whole;
For Love's relics, to my grief,
From my…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Parables - In The Koran With Strange Delight

Book Of Parables - In The Koran With Strange Delight

In the Koran with strange delight
A peacock's feather met my sight:
Thou'rt welcome in this …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Paradise - The Privileged Men

Book Of Paradise - The Privileged Men

AFTER THE BATTLE OF BADE, BENEATH THE CANOPY OF HEAVEN.

MAHOMET (Speaks).
LET the foeman sorrow o'e…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Love - The Types

Book Of Love - The Types

LIST, and in memory bear
These six fond loving pair.
Love, when aroused, kept true
Rustan and Rad!
Stran…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Parables - Bulbul's Song

Book Of Parables - Bulbul's Song

BULBUL'S song, through night hours cold,
Rose to Allah's throne on high;
To reward her melody,

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Hafis - The Unlimited

Book Of Hafis - The Unlimited

THAT thou can't never end, doth make thee great,
And that thou ne'er beginnest, is thy fate.
Thy song is changeful …

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Love - Love's Torments

Book Of Love - Love's Torments

LOVE's torments sought a place of rest,
Where all might drear and lonely be;
They found ere long my desert breast,…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Contemplation - Five Things

Book Of Contemplation - Five Things

WHAT makes time short to me?

Activity!
What makes it long and spiritless?
'Tis idleness!

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Book Of Contemplation - Suleika

Book Of Contemplation - Suleika

THE mirror tells me, I am fair!

Thou sayest, to grow old my fate will be.
Nought in God's presence change…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Blindman's Buff

Blindman's Buff

OH, my Theresa dear!
Thine eyes, I greatly fear,


Can through the bandage see!
Although thine eyes are bou…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ballad Of The Banished And Returning Count

Ballad Of The Banished And Returning Count

OH, enter old minstrel, thou time-honour'd one!

We children are here in the hall all alone,
Th…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Authors

Authors


OVER the meadows, and down the stream,

And through the garden-walks straying,
He plucks the flowers that fairest seem;

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As Broad As It's Long

As Broad As It's Long

MODEST men must needs endure,

And the bold must humbly bow;
Thus thy fate's the same, be sure,
Whether bold…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Another

Another


Go! obedient to my call,
Turn to profit thy young days,


Wiser make betimes thy breast
In Fate's balance a…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Apparent Death

Apparent Death

WEEP, maiden, weep here o'er the tomb of Love;

He died of nothing--by mere chance was slain.
But is he really dead?--oh, t…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anacreon's Grave

Anacreon's Grave

HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laurels are twining,
Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket is heard,…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After-Sensations

After-Sensations


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

Wherefo…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Symbol

A Symbol

THE mason's trade Observe them well,
Resembles life, And watch them revealing
With all its strife,--How solemn feeling

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Parable

A Parable

I PICKED a rustic nosegay lately,
And bore it homewards, musing greatly;
When, heated by my hand, I found
The heads all droopin…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Legacy

A Legacy

No living atom comes at last to naught!
Active in each is still the eternal Thought:
Hold fast to Being if thou wouldst be blest.

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Jane Austen
Jane Austen

When Stretch'd on One's Bed

When Stretch'd on One's Bed

When stretch'd on one's bed
With a fierce-throbbing head,
Which preculdes alike thought or repose,
How little…

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