Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE LAKE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poet's Biography First Line: My blood flows fresh, my soul finds food Last Line: Fruits half hid in the grove. Subject(s): Zurich (lake), Switzerland | ||||||||
MY blood flows fresh, my soul finds food, I roam the world at large; And Nature, -- smiles she not most good? She holds my heart in charge. The wavelets lift our little boat, With the oars, in measured beat, And hills, piled cloudlike, hither float Our bounding bark to meet. Eye, mine eye, why art thou sinking? Of those dreams must still be thinking? Go, Dream! golden as thou art; Here, too, love and life have part. Under the wave fly, blinking, Shoals of stars, as I ponder; Flocks of clouds hang drinking Round the hills away yonder; Morning wind is dancing O'er the shadowy cove, From the lake come glancing Fruits half hid in the grove. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LAKE AT ZURICH by JAMES COCHRANE ON THE LAKE by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE THE LAKE OF ZURICH by FRIEDRICH GOTTLIEB KLOPSTOCK SONG OF AN ALPINE GUIDE by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ A SONG FROM THE COPTIC by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE FAUST: SCENE 1. PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE HASTE NOT! REST NOT! by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE PROMETHEUS by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE THE ERL-KING by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE THE FISHER by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A LEGACY by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A VOICE FROM THE INVISIBLE WORLD by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE |
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