The Works of J. W. von Goethe/Volume 9

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

POEMS OF GOETHE

"A Beauteous Maid with Downcast Look"

Photogravure from painting by K. Kirchbach

The Works of
J. W. von Goethe

With His Life by
GEORGE HENRY LEWES

Edited by
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE

Translations by
SIR WALTER SCOTT, SIR THEODORE MARTIN
JOHN OXENFORD, THOMAS CARLYLE
AND OTHERS

In Fourteen Volumes
Volume IX.

PUBLISHED BY

FRANCIS A. NICCOLLS & CO.

LONDON AND BOSTON

Lyceum Edition

Limited to 750 Numbered and
Registered Sets for America

Copy 232

Oxford Press

Contents

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	PAGE
Dedication	1
To the Kind Reader	5
Sound, Sweet Song	5
The Modern Amadis	6
When the Fox Dies His Skin Counts	7
The Coquette	8
The Wild Rose	8
The Breeze	9
Blindman's Buff	9
Christel	10
Smitten	11
Reservation	12
Resolve	13
Treasure Trove	13
The Muses' Son	14
Reciprocal Invitation to the Dance	15
Like and Like	16
Self-Deceit	16
Declaration of War	17
Lover in All Shapes	18
The Goldsmith's Apprentice	20
Answers in a Game of Questions	21
Different Emotions on the Same Spot	22
The Misanthrope	23
Different Threats	24
Who'll Buy Cupid?	24
True Enjoyment	26
Maiden Wishes	27
The Farewell	28
Motives	29
The Lovely Night	29
Love's Dream	30
Living Remembrance	30
The Bliss of Absence	31
To Luna	32
The Wedding Night	33
Mischievous Joy	34
November Song	34
To the Chosen One	35
First Loss	36
Apparent Death	36
After-Sensations	36
Presence	37
Separation	38
To the Distant One	38
By the River	39
The Exchange	39
Farewell	40
Welcome and Departure	40
New Love, New Life	41
To Belinda	42
With an Embroidered Ribbon	43
Second Life	44
To My Mistress	44
Flower-Salute	45
With a Golden Necklace	46
May Song	46
On the Lake	48
From the Mountain	49
May Song	49
Early Spring	50
In Summer	51
Autumn Feelings	51
Restless Love	52
The Shepherd's Lament	53
Night Song	54
Comfort in Tears	54
Longing	56
The Castle on the Mountain	57
To Mignon	59
Spirit Greeting	60
To a Golden Heart He Was Wearing on His Neck	60
Wanderer's Night-Song	61
Ilm, the River, to the Moon	62
Huntsman's Evening Song	63
Evening	64
To Lina	64
Ever and Everywhere	65
Delight of Sorrow	65
Proximity	65
A Night Thought	66
Petition	66
To His Coy One	66
Rollicking Hans	67
To Lida	68
Reciprocal	68
The Freebooter	69
Joy and Sorrow	69
March	70
April	71
May	71
June	72
Next Year's Spring	74
Swiss Song	74
Sicilian Song	75
At Midnight Hour	75
To the Rising Full Moon	76
The Bridegroom	76
Such, Such is He Who Pleaseth Me	77
Gipsy Song	78
The Destruction of Magdeburg	79
Finnish Song	80
Depression	81
Sorrow Without Consolation	82
The Parting	82
On the New Year	83
Anniversary Song	84
The Spring Oracle	86
The Happy Couple	87
Song of Fellowship	90
Constancy in Change	91
Table Song	93
Wont and Done	95
Vanitas, Vanitatum Vanitas	96
Fortune of War	98
Coptic Song	100
Another	100
Open Table	101
The Reckoning	103
Mignon	106
General Confession	107
Ergo Bibamus!	108
The Minstrel	109
Epiphanias	111
Ballad	112
The Faithless Boy	115
The Erl-King	117
Johanna Sebus	118
The Violet	120
The Beauteous Flower	121
Sir Curt's Wedding Journey	124
Wedding Song	125
The Fisherman	128
The Rat-Catcher	129
The King of Thule	130
The Treasure-Seeker	131
The Spinner	132
The Youth and the Mill-Stream	133
The Maid of the Mill's Treachery	136
The Maid of the Mill's Repentance	138
The Walking Bell	141
The Traveller and the Farm Maiden	142
The Page and the Miller's Daughter	145
Faithful Eckart	147
The Dance of the Dead	149
Effect at a Distance	150
The Bride of Corinth	152
The Pupil in Magic	159
Before a Court of Justice	162
The God and the Bayadere	163
The Pariah	166
Death Lament of the Noble Wife of Asan Aga	172
Idyll	175
Rinaldo	179
The First Walpurgis-Night	184
To My Friend	188
Song of the Spirits over the Waters	192
Mahomet's Song	193
My Goddess	195
Hartz Mountains	198
The Wanderer's Storm-Song	201
To Father Kronos	205
The Sea-Voyage	206
The Eagle and the Dove	208
Ganymede	209
Prometheus	210
Limits of Humanity	212
The Godlike	213
The German Parnassus	215
Love's Distresses	222
Lili's Menagerie	223
To Charlotte	227
Morning Lament	228
The Visit	230
The Musagetes	232
The Water-Man	234
Psyche	235
In Absence	236
The Magic Net	236
The Church Window	237
The Cavalier's Choice	238
The Artist's Morning Song	240
The Goblet	243
From an Album of 1604	244
To the Grasshopper	245
From "The Sorrows of Young Werther"	246
Trilogy of Passion	246
For Ever	254
Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull	254
On the Divan	255
Royal Prayer	256
Human Feelings	256
Explanation of an Ancient Woodcut, Representing Hans Sachs's Poetical Mission	256
The Friendly Meeting	262
In a Word	262
The Maiden Speaks	263
Growth	264
Food in Travel	264
Departure	265
The Loving One Writes	265
The Loving One Once More	266
The Doubters and the Lovers	267
She Cannot End	267
Nemesis	268
The Christmas-Box	268
The Warning	269
The Epochs	269
Charade	270
The Soldier's Consolation	270
To Originals	271
Genial Impulse	271
Neither This nor That	271
The Way to Behave	271
The Best	272
As Broad as It's Long	272
The Rule of Life	272
The Same, Expanded	272
Calm at Sea	273
The Prosperous Voyage	273
Courage	274
Admonition	274
My Only Property	274
Old Age	275
Epitaph	275
Rule for Monarchs	275
Paulo Post Futuri	275
The Fool's Epilogue	276
Authors	277
Cat-Pie	277
Joy	278
Explanation of an Antique Gem	279
Legend	280
The Wrangler	280
The Critic	281
The Yelpers	281
The Stork's Vocation	282
The Dilettante and the Critic	282
Poetry	283
Celebrity	283
Playing at Priests	284
Songs	286
A Parable	286
Should E'er the Loveless Day	287
A Plan the Muses Entertained	287
The Death of the Fly	287
By the River	288
The Fox and the Huntsman	288
The Frogs	289
The Wedding	289
The Fox and Crane	290
Burial	291
The Buyers	291
Symbols	292
Threatening Signs	292
The Mountain Village	293
Three Palinodias	293
A Symbol	296
Valediction	297
The Country Schoolmaster	298
The Legend of the Horseshoe	299
The Wanderer	301
The Drops of Nectar	308
Love as a Landscape Painter	309
God, Soul and World	312
The Metamorphosis of Plants	313
Religion and Church	317
Proverbs	322
Tame Xenia	322
Exculpation	323
Phoœmion	324
The Park	325
Antiques
Leopold, Duke of Brunswick	325
Anacreon's Grave	326
The Husbandman	326
The Brothers	326
Love's Hour-Glass	327
Warning	327
Philomena	327
The Chosen Rock	328
Solitude	328
Holy Family	329
The Muses' Mirror	329
The Teachers	329
Marriage Unequal	330
Phœbus and Hermes	330
The Wreaths	330
The New Love	331
The Consecrated Spot	332
Sakontala	332
Distichs	333
The Chinaman in Rome	334
Perfect Bliss	334
Proverbs	334
Venetian Epigrams	335
Elegies
Roman Elegies	340
Alexis and Dora	345
Song of the Fates	354
Songs from Various Plays, etc.
From Faust	356
From Faust—Second Part	366
From Götz Von Berlichingen	374
From Egmont	375
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship	376
Philine's Song	378
Epilogue to Schiller's "Song of the Bell"	379
L'Envoi	382

List of Illustrations

	PAGE
"A beauteous maid with downcast look" (See page 261)	Frontispiece
"Dorilis then gave it me"	7
"Half drew him in, half lured him in"	128
"Then she sinks beside his bier"	165
"The monster's droll enough"	225