The minor poetry of Goethe : a selection from his songs, ballads, and other lesser poems

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, William Grasett Thomas

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100 THE WANDERER S NIGHT SONG.* THOU who the child of Heaven art, Who and sorrows stillest,transports Who the wretched heartdoubly with comfort fillcst.Doubly thy when will cease !Ah, my yearning What avails or orjoy grief? Blessed peace, ah heart relief!Bring, bring my "* This was written as a note to Frau vonpiece February 12th, 1T7G, ll s s an Frau von Stein.Stein. See Schb Goethe Bricfe 101 TO THE MOON* OVER vale and thygrove glance Still and hazy gleams, Tliou lt dissolve soulmy perchance In beams.thy peaceful lieSoothingly thy glances O er the meadow spread, As the of s light friendship eye O er fate is shed.my the I hearEchoes of past and sad,Joyous days * A named Von herselfdeserted heryoung lady, Lassberg. believing by drowned herself in the in 1778. The incident rise to thislover, Urn, gave As written and sent to Frau von in 1778,Stein,poem. originally January, it was much shorter and differed inconsiderably expression. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA /K> g5 "| >mi>^ O *0 .,^._ "^h^ Q^ OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA i i ^^^^^6Q^^H= vXizt=ix^ x^VY=* o c>d ...-^.._ \(>A<]^ /^=^ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 5 SSlSS^ Qj^^D "^^ LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALOF CALIFORNIATHE UNIVERSITYf 8F OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAIOF CALIFORNIA LIBRARYY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA!

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• Langue: English
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100
THE WANDERER S NIGHT SONG.*
THOU who the child of Heaven art,
Who and sorrows stillest,transports
Who the wretched heartdoubly
with comfort fillcst.Doubly thy
when will cease !Ah, my yearning
What avails or orjoy grief?
Blessed
peace,
ah heart relief!Bring, bring my
"* This was written as a note to Frau vonpiece February 12th, 1T7G,
ll s s an Frau von Stein.Stein. See Schb Goethe Bricfe101
TO THE MOON*
OVER vale and thygrove glance
Still and hazy gleams,
Tliou lt dissolve soulmy perchance
In beams.thy peaceful
lieSoothingly thy glances
O er the meadow spread,
As the of s
light friendship eye
O er fate is shed.my
the I hearEchoes of past
and sad,Joyous days
* A named Von herselfdeserted heryoung lady, Lassberg. believing by
drowned herself in the in 1778. The incident rise to thislover, Urn, gave
As written and sent to Frau von in 1778,Stein,poem. originally January,
it was much shorter and differed inconsiderably expression.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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MINOR POETRY
GOETHE.
A SELECTION FROM HIS
AND OTHER LESSER POEMS.SONGS, BALLADS,
TRANSLATED
BY
WILLIAM GRASETT THOMAS.
PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY E. H. BUTLER & CO.
1859.to Act of in theEntered, according Congress, year 1859,
BY E. H. BUTLER & CO.,
District ofIn the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the Eastern Pennsylvania.