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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A Parable
I Picked a rustic nosegay lately, / And bore it homewards, musing greatly; / When, heated by my hand, I found
A Plan The Muses Entertained
A plan the Muses entertain'd / Methodically to impart / To Psyche the poetic art;
A Symbol
The mason's trade Observe them well, / Resembles life, And watch them revealing / With all its strife, How solemn feeling
Admonition
Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the Good is lying near, / Fortune learn to seize alone,
After-Sensations
WHEN the vine again is blowing, / Then the wine moves in the cask; / When the rose again is glowing,
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, / Say, whose grave can this be, with life by all the Immortals
Anniversary Song
Why pacest thou, my neighbour fair, / The garden all alone? / If house and land thou seek'st to guard,
Another
Go! obedient to my call, / Turn to profit thy young days, / Wiser make betimes thy breast
Answers In A Game Of Questions
THE LADY. / IN the small and great world too, / What most charms a woman's heart?
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, that I cannot prove:
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