Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Poetry, by popularity

• From Iphigenia In Tauris

  ACT IV. SCENE 5.
  SONG OF THE FATES.

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• The Convivial Book - Can The Koran From Eternity Be?

  'Tis worth not a thought!
  Can the Koran a creation, then, be?

  15 lines
• From Faust - Second Part - Scene The Last

  SCENE THE LAST.
  ANGELS.

  328 lines
• Book Of Paradise - The Privileged Men

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

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• Book Of Parables - In The Koran With Strange Delight

  In the Koran with strange delight
  A peacock's feather met my sight:

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• From Faust - IV. Chorus Of Spirits

  VANISH, dark clouds on high,
  Offspring of night!

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• From "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" - Book IV, Chap. XI

  My grief no mortals know,
  

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• From "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" - Book V, Chap. X

  SING no more in mournful tones
  Of the loneliness of night;

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• Wedding Night

  Far from the feasting, in the bedroom
  Sits loyal Amor and quakes with dread:

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• Book Of Parables - From Heaven There Fell Upon The Foaming Wave

  From Heaven there fell upon the foaming wave
  A timid drop; the flood with anger roared,--

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• Book Of Parables - It Is Good

  IN Paradise while moonbeams play'd,
  Jehovah found, in slumber deep,

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• From Faust - I. Dedication

  YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near,
  So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze!

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• Sameness

  Over all hilltops
  is peace

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• From Faust - III. Chorus Of Angels

  CHRIST is arisen!
  Mortal, all hail!

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• Hermann And Dorothea - I. Kalliope

  FATE AND SYMPATHY.
  "NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty!

  226 lines
• Hermann And Dorothea - VII. Erato

  DOROTHEA.
  As the man on a journey, who, just at the moment of sunset,

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• From Faust - VII. MARGARET, Placing Fresh Flowers In The Flower-Pots.

  O THOU well-tried in grief,
  Grant to thy child relief,

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• From Gotz Von Berlichingen

  ACT II.
  LIEBETRAUT plays and sings.

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• Hermann And Dorothea - V. Polyhymnia

  THE COSMOPOLITE.
  BUT the Three, as before, were still sitting and talking together,

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• Hermann And Dorothea - VI. Klio

  THE AGE.
  WHEN the pastor ask'd the foreign magistrate questions,

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• The Mountain Castle

  THERE stands on yonder high mountain
  A castle built of yore,

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• The Youth And The Millstream

  YOUTH.
  SAY, sparkling streamlet, whither thou

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• Hermann And Dorothea - IX. Urania

  CONCLUSION.
  O YE Muses, who gladly favour a love that is heartfelt,

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• The Swiss Alps

  YESTERDAY brown was still thy head, as the locks of my loved one,
  Whose sweet image so dear silently beckons afar.

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• From Egmont

  ACT I.
  CLARA winds a skein, and sings with Brackenburg.

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• Tame Xenia

  GOD gave to mortals birth,
  In his own image too;

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• Distichs

  CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,--the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth;
  While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the dust.

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• The Convivial Book - Ye've Often, For Our Drunkenness,

  Blamed us in ev'ry way,
  And, in abuse of drunkenness,

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• Hermann And Dorothea - IV. Euterpe

  MOTHER AND SON.
  THUS the men discoursed together; and meanwhile the mother

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• From "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" - Book II, Chap. XIII

  WHO never eat with tears his bread,
  Who never through night's heavy hours

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