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

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
| | 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 |