The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring THE TRANSLATOR'S OR...
2011-12-14
Or if at table she'll employ, To pillow hers, her lover's feet, Give me the apple that she bit, T...
The Heathrose Blindman's Buff Christel The Coy One The Convert Preservation The Muses' Son Fo...
The Epochs The Doubters and the Lovers Charade EPIGRAMS. To Originals The Soldier's Consolation...
honour them with your inspection. Lose not his opportunity! Yet nothing in my booth you'll find Wit...
cleverly. Straight for a priest the mother sent, Who, when he understood the jest, With what he saw...
how, and when my husband died and was interr'd. To forms I've always been attached indeed, His deat...
locks, And to a cubit's height upraise thy socks, Still thou remainest ever, what thou art. Faust ...
Faust What murmurest thou? Margaret (half aloud) He loves me - loves me not. Faust Sweet angel,...
Mephistopheles Time, my good friend, will all that's needful give; Be only self - possessed, and t...
My peace is gone, My heart is sore, I find it never, And nevermore! For him from the window I gaze,...
I am afraid the landlord to offend; Else freely I would treat each worthy guest From our own cellar...
Naught of this genial influence do I know! Within me all is wintry. Frost and snow I should prefer ...
Mephistopheles Nay! nay! A model which all women shall surpass, In flesh and blood ere long thou s...
them often beyond his ken; Will the dog snarl at them like men? But ah! Despite my will, it stands ...