Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems

I THINK of thee, whene'er the sun his beams

O'er ocean flings;
I think of thee, whene'er the moonlight gleams
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QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste,

And lo! 'twas done with speed of light;
The evening soon the world embraced,
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NEVER dry, never dry,

Tears that eternal love sheddeth!
How dreary, how dead doth the world still appear,
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WITHIN a gloomy charnel-house one day

I view'd the countless skulls, so strangely mated,
And of old times I thought, that now were grey.
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LIST, and in memory bear
These six fond loving pair.
Love, when aroused, kept true
Rustan and Rad!
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How, in the light of morning,
Round me thou glowest,
Spring, thou beloved one!
With thousand-varying loving bliss
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OH thou sweet maiden fair,
Thou with the raven hair,

Why to the window go?
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LITTLE leaves and flow'rets too,

Scatter we with gentle hand,
Kind young spring-gods to the view,
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CALL on the present day and night for nought,
Save what by yesterday was brought.
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THE sea is flowing ever,
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OH ye kindly nymphs, who dwell 'mongst the rocks and the thickets,
Grant unto each whatsoe'er he may in silence desire!
Comfort impart to the mourner, and give to the doubter instruction,
And let the lover rejoice, finding the bliss that he craves.
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