Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems

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161.
Rhymed Distichs

WHO trusts in God,
Fears not His rod.
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THIS truth may be by all believed:
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162.
Song Of Fellowship

IN ev'ry hour of joy

That love and wine prolong,
The moments we'll employ
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163.
The Fox And The Huntsman

HARD 'tis on a fox's traces

To arrive, midst forest-glades;
Hopeless utterly the chase is,
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164.
Motives

IF to a girl who loves us truly
Her mother gives instruction duly
In virtue, duty, and what not,--
And if she hearkens ne'er a jot,
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165.
From Egmont

CLARA winds a skein, and sings with Brackenburg.
THE drum gives the signal!
Loud rings the shrill fife!
My love leads his troops on
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166.
By The River

FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair,

On to Oblivion's ocean flow!
May no rapt boy recall you e'er,
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167.
Like And Like

A FAIR bell-flower

Sprang tip from the ground;
And early its fragrance
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168.
Charade

Two words there 'are, both short, of beauty rare,
Whose sounds our lips so often love to frame,
But which with clearness never can proclaim
The things whose own peculiar stamp they bear.
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169.
From An Album Of 1604

HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope.
Rise up to Cynthia, love, when night is clearest,
And say, that as on high her figure changeth,
So, upon earth, my joy decays and grows.
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170.
My Own Property

I FEEL that I'm possess'd of nought,
Saving the free unfetterd thought
Which from my bosom seeks to flow,
And each propitious passing hour
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