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THE POETICAL WORKS OF

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE *

       

Songs

Sound, sweet Song...
To the kind Reader
The New Amadis
When the Fox dies, his Skin counts
The Heathrose
Blindman's Buff
Christel
The Coy One
The Convert
Preservation
The Muses' Son
Found
Like and Like
Reciprocal Invitation to the Dance
Self-Deceit
Declaration of War
Lover in all Shapes
The Goldsmith's Apprentice
Answers in a Game of Questions
Different Emotions on the same Spot
Who'll buy Gods of love?
The Misanthrope
Different Threats
Maiden Wishes
Motives
True Enjoyment
The Farewell
The Beautiful Night.
Happiness and Vision
Living Remembrance
The Bliss of Absence
To Luna
The Wedding Night
Mischievous Joy
Apparent Death
November Song
To the Chosen One
First Loss
After Sensations
Proximity of the Beloved One
Presence
To the Distant One
By the River
Farewell
The Exchange
Welcome and Farewell
New Love, New Life
To Belinda
May Song
With a painted Ribbon
With a golden Necklace
On the Lake
From the Mountain
Flower-Salute
In Summer
May Song
Premature Spring
Autumn Feelings
Restless Love
The Shepherd's Lament
Comfort in Tears
Night Song
Longing
To Mignon
The Mountain Castle
The Spirit's Salute
To a Golden Heart that he wore round his neck
The Bliss of Sorrow
The Wanderer's Night-song
The Same
The Hunter's Even-Song
To the Moon
To Lina
Ever and Everywhere
Petition
To his Coy One
Night Thoughts
To Lida
Proximity
Reciprocal
Rollicking Hans
The Freebooter
Joy and Sorrow
March
April
May
June
Next Year's Spring
At Midnight Hour
To the rising full Moon
The Bridegroom
Such is he who pleaseth me
Sicilian Song
Swiss Song
Finnish Song
Gipsy Song
The Destruction of Magdeburg

FAMILIAR SONGS

On the New Year
Anniversary Song
The Spring Oracle
The Happy Couple
Song of Fellowship
Constancy in Change
Table Song
Wont and Done
General Confession
Coptic Song
Another
Vanitas! vanitatum vanitas!
Fortune of War
Open Table
The Reckoning
Ergo Bibamus!
Epiphanias

Ballads

 

CANTATAS

ODES

SONNETS

EPIGRAMS

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

 

 

 

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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 & DOROTHEA
Kalliope
Terpsichore
Thalia
Euterpe
Polyhymnia
Klio
Erato
Melpomene
Urania

WEST-EASTERN DIVAN.
I  Minstrel's Book
II  Book of Hafis
III Book of Love
IV Book of Contemplation
V Book of Gloom
VI  Book of Proverbs
VII  Book of Timur
VIII Book of Suleika
IX The Convivial Book
X Book of Parables
XI Book of the Parsees
XII Book of Paradise

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 Part 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 & Brackenburg's Song
Clara's Song

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship:
Who never ate 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

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* In the cases in which the date is marked thus (*), it
signifies the original date of publication--the year of
composition not being known. In other cases, the date given is
that of the actual composition. All the poems are arranged in the
order of the recognised German editions.

 

Copyright : All works included : see copyright notice in Archive.