Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Stork's Vocation.
... Why should he dwell on high church-towers,With which he's not allied ...
Rinaldo.*
... beat! Spirit true, recall those days Freeborn breath thy gentle laysMingled are with joy and pain ...
The Soldier's Consolation.
... Black the bread, the maidens white! 1815 ...
The Mountain Village.
... God's self at such a game must lose! 1821 ...
Finnish Song.
... Though the wolf's blood might have dyed them ...
The Walking Bell
... To church, to chapel, hastening fastThrough pastures, plains, and bushes ...
Legend.
... Straight and with ease, with the head of an ass!" 1815 ...
Faithful Eckart.
... With cries and with shouts the wild hunters, o'erjoy'd,Speed onward o'er vale and o'er mountain ...
The Prosperous Voyage.
... I see land beyond! 1795 ...
The Fox And Huntsman.
... Over which we gape and blunder,And our head and brains distract ...
The Maid Of The Mill's Repentance.
... maid of the mill was disclosed to the sightOf the startled and angry stripling!THE MAID OF THE MILL ...
Open Table.
... Whose rude grumbling in their breastsGreater love but rouses ...
The Warning.
... I to thee have said, To a full year the Judgment Day will grow 1807 ...
Warning.
... ent mother with care turn time to her profit,While her babe is asleep, for 'twill awake but too soon ...
The Freebooter,
... From top to the bottom,--There lie I and sleep ...
