The Epochs

The Doubters and the Lovers
Charade

EPIGRAMS.
To Originals

The Soldier's Consolation
Genial Impulse

Neither this nor that
The way to behave

The best
As broad as it's long

The Rule of Life
The same, expanded

Calm at Sea
The Prosperous Voyage

Courage
My only Property

Admonition
Old Age

Epitaph
Rules for Monarchs

Paulo post futuri
The Fool's Epilogue

PARABLES.
Joy

Explanation of an antique Gem
Cat-Pie

Legend
Authors

The Critic
The Dilettante and the Critic

The Wrangler
The Yelpers

The Stork's Vocation
Celebrity

Playing at Priests
Songs

Poetry
A Parable

Should e'er the loveless day remain
A Plan the Muses entertained

The Death of the Fly
By the River

The Fox and Crane
The Fox and Huntsman

The Frogs
The Wedding

Burial
Threatening Signs

The Buyers
The Mountain Village

Symbols
Three Palinodias :--

I. The Smoke that from thine Altar blows.
II. Conflict of Wit and Beauty

III. Rain and Rainbow.
Valediction

The Country Schoolmaster
The Legend of the Horseshoe

A Symbol
ART.

The Drops of Nectar
The Wanderer

I Love as a Landscape Painter
GOD, SOUL, AND WORLD.

Rhymed Distichs
Prooemion

The Metamorphosis of Plants
PROVERBS

TAME XENIA
RELIGION AND CHURCH.

Thoughts on Jesus Christ's descent into Hell
ANTIQUES.

Leopold, Duke of Brunswick
To the Husbandman

Anacreon's Grave
The Brethren

Measure of Time
Warning

Solitude
The Chosen Cliff

The Consecrated Spot
The Instructors

The Unequal Marriage.
Excuse

Sakontala
The Muse's Mirror

Phoebus and Hermes
The New Amor

The Garlands
The Swiss Alps

Distichs
VENETIAN EPIGRAMS.

ELEGIES.
Roman Elegies

Alexis and Dora
Hermann and Dorothea

WEST-EASTERN DIVAN.
I. Minstrel's Book :--

Talismans
The Four Favours

Discord
Song and Structure

II. Book of Hafis :--
The Unlimited

To Hafis
III. Book of Love :--

The Types
One Pair More

Love's Torments
IV. Book of Contemplation :--

Five Things
For Woman

Firdusi
Suleika

V. Book of Gloom :--
It is a Fault

VI. Book of Proverbs
VII. Book of Timur :--

The Winter and Timur
To Suleika

VIII. Book of Suleika :--
Suleika's Love

Hatem
Suleika

Love for Love
Hatem

The Loving One speaks
The Loving One again

These tufted Branches fair
Suleika

The Sublime Type
Suleika

The Reunion
Suleika

In thousand forms
IX. The Convivial Book :--

Can the Koran from Eternity be?
Ye've often for our Drunkenness

X. Book of Parables :--
From Heaven there fell upon the foaming wave

Bulbul's Song
In the Koran with strange delight.

All kinds of Men.
It is good

XI. Book of the Parsees :--
The Bequest of the ancient Persian faith

XII. Book of Paradise:
The Privileged Men

The favoured Beasts
The Seven Sleepers

SONGS FROM VARIOUS PLAYS, ETC.
From Faust :--

Dedication
Prologue in Heaven

Chorus of Angels
Chorus of Spirits

Margaret at her Spinning Wheel
Garden Scene

Margaret's Song
From Faust锟絇art II.:--

Ariel's Song and Chorus of Spirits
Scene the last

From Iphigenia in Tauris :--
Song of the Fates

From Gotz von Berlichingen :--
Liebetraut's Song

From Egmont :--
Clara and Brackenburg's Song

Clara's Song
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship :--

Who never eat with tears his bread
Who gives himself to Solitude

My Grief no Mortals know
Sing no more in mournful tones

Epilogue to Schiller's Song of the Bell
L'ENVOI

THE POEMS OF GOETHE.
DEDICATION.

The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared
The gentle sleep that round my senses clung,

And I, awak'ning, from my cottage fared,
And up the mountain side with light heart sprung;

At every step I felt my gaze ensnared
By new-born flow'rs that full of dew-drops hung;

The youthful day awoke with ecstacy,
And all things quicken'd were, to quicken me.

And as I mounted, from the valley rose
A streaky mist, that upward slowly spread,

Then bent, as though my form it would enclose,
Then, as on pinions, soar'd above my head:

My gaze could now on no fair view repose,
in mournful veil conceal'd, the world seem'd dead;

The clouds soon closed around me, as a tomb,
And I was left alone in twilight gloom.

At once the sun his lustre seem'd to pour,
And through the mist was seen a radiant light;

Here sank it gently to the ground once more,
There parted it, and climb'd o'er wood and height.

How did I yearn to greet him as of yore,
After the darkness waxing doubly bright!

• prosperous [´prɔspərəs] a.繁荣的；顺利的 (初中英语单词)
• conflict [´kɔnflikt, kən´flikt] n.&vi.战斗；抵触 (初中英语单词)
• persian [´pə:ʃən] a.波斯的 n.波斯人 (初中英语单词)
• chorus [´kɔ:rəs] n.合唱；齐声 v.合唱 (初中英语单词)
• cottage [´kɔtidʒ] n.村舍；小屋；小别墅 (初中英语单词)
• youthful [´ju:θfəl] a.年轻的；青年的 (初中英语单词)
• valley [´væli] n.谷；河谷；流域 (初中英语单词)
• upward [´ʌpwəd] a.&ad.向上(的)；以上 (初中英语单词)
• twilight [´twailait] n.黎明；黄昏 (初中英语单词)
• gently [´dʒentli] ad.温和地；静静地 (初中英语单词)
• landscape [´lændskeip] n.风景；景色；风景画 (高中英语单词)
• descent [di´sent] n.出身，家世 (高中英语单词)
• loving [´lʌviŋ] a.爱的，有爱情的 (高中英语单词)
• eternity [i´tə:niti] n.永恒，来世，无穷 (高中英语单词)
• spinning [´spiniŋ] n.纺织 a.纺织品的 (高中英语单词)
• footstep [´futstep] n.足迹，脚步声 (高中英语单词)
• quicken [´kwikən] v.加快；加速；鼓舞 (高中英语单词)
• radiant [´reidiənt] a.发光的 n.光源(体) (高中英语单词)
• antique [æn´ti:k] a.古代的 n.古物(董) (英语四级单词)
• unequal [ʌn´i:kwəl] a.不平等的；不同的 (英语四级单词)
• contemplation [,kɔntem´pleiʃən] n.注视；冥想；打算 (英语四级单词)
• sublime [sə´blaim] a.崇高的，伟大的 (英语四级单词)
• favoured [´feivəd] a.有利的，喜爱的 (英语四级单词)
• mournful [´mɔ:nful] a.令人沮丧的 (英语四级单词)
• metamorphosis [,metə´mɔ:fəsis] n.变形；变质；变态 (英语六级单词)
• privileged [´privilidʒd] a.有特权的；特许的 (英语六级单词)
• apprenticeship [ə´prentisʃip] n.学徒工身份 (英语六级单词)
• doubly [´dʌbli] ad.加倍地，双重地 (英语六级单词)