Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems

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81.
The Death Of The Fly

WITH eagerness he drinks the treach'rous potion,

Nor stops to rest, by the first taste misled;
Sweet is the draught, but soon all power of motion
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82.
Warning

WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers;
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83.
From The Mountain

IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,

How this prospect would enchant my sight!
And yet if I, Lily, did not love thee,
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84.
Preservation

My maiden she proved false to me;

To hate all joys I soon began,
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85.
Flower-Salute

THIS nosegay,--'twas I dress'd it,--

Greets thee a thousand times!
Oft stoop'd I, and caress'd it,
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86.
From Faust - Iii. Chorus Of Angels

CHRIST is arisen!
Mortal, all hail!
Thou, of Earth's prison
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87.
Conflict Of Wit And Beauty

Sir Wit, who is so much esteem'd,
And who is worthy of all honour,
Saw Beauty his superior deem'd
By folks who loved to gaze upon her;
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88.
The Bride Of Corinth

ONCE a stranger youth to Corinth came,
Who in Athens lived, but hoped that he
From a certain townsman there might claim,
As his father's friend, kind courtesy.
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89.
On The Divan

HE who knows himself and others

Here will also see,
That the East and West, like brothers,
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90.
Epitaph

As a boy, reserved and naughty;
As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty;
As a man, for action inclined;
As a greybeard, fickle in mind.--
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