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Subject: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON (1749-1832)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` GOETHE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose voice shall so invade the spheres
Last Line: And made one talent ten!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Fate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Life; Poetry & Poets; Destiny


GOETHE IN MARIENBAD, by JOSEF HANZLIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forests of baptised springs
Last Line: There'll be no need to slash the wrist %with a sharp penknife %the unmetaphorical %gushing of tuberc
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Marienbad, Czech Republic


GOETHE'S DEATH MASK, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The face is quite smooth
Last Line: And eaten into. What a mess his eyes are
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Death; Masks


GOETHE'S THEORY OF COLOR, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: If color is the speech of nature's soul
Last Line: As you pull me down toward you
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)


HAPPY POETS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's my delight to recite
Last Line: With what I've written
Variant Title(s): The Happy Poets (1
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Love; Poetry And Poets


HARTZ-JOURNEY IN WINTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vulture like
Last Line: Of brothers beside thee
Subject(s): Fortune; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Love; Poetry & Poets


LET THE LIGHT ENTER (THE DYING WORDS OF GOETHE), by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light! More light! The shadows deepen'
Last Line: Then be blessed with light, more light.
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)


LOVE'S HOUR-GLASS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eros! Wherefore do I see thee, with the glass
Last Line: That is for the days of dalliance, and it melts with golden speed.'
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Love; Time


MEMORIAL VERSES, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Goethe in weimar sleeps, and greece
Last Line: Hears thy voice right, now he is gone.
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Writing & Writers; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron


PSYCHE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The muses, maiden sisters, chose
Last Line: And taught her all the mystery.
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Psyche (mythology)


SONNET: 9. GOETHE'S MONUMENT AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good german men, maids, matrons, pray give ear
Last Line: Whom a stream doth from sachsenhausen sever!
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Monuments


THE BUSTS OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER IN WALHALLA, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is goethe, with a forehead
Last Line: And the poet is the king!
Subject(s): Death; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Dead, The; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


THE MUSAGETES, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often in the winter midnight
Last Line: Your eyes to look on heavenly glory!
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Muses; Prayer


THE SONG OF MIGNON, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knows't thou the land where citron-flowers
Last Line: Our pathway leads: o father, let us go!
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Singing & Singers; Songs


TO A QUONDAM FOLLOWER OF GOETHE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou, then, superior risen
Last Line: At each luneburg tea-party!
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)


TO BETTINE; THE CHILD-FRIEND OF GOETHE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bettine, friend of goethe
Last Line: Preserving evermore the child.
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)


WANDERER'S NIGHT SONG (GOETHE), by CHARLES OSBORNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over all the mountains
Last Line: Wait awhile: %soon %you too will rest
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)


WRITTEN IN A VOLUME OF GOETHE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six thankful weeks, -- and let it be
Last Line: In his plenty things so rare?
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832)