Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems

DELOS' stately ruler, and Maia's son, the adroit one,

Warmly were striving, for both sought the great prize to obtain.
Hermes the lyre demanded, the lyre was claim'd by Apollo,
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I DRINK fresh nourishment, new blood

From out this world more free;
The Nature is so kind and good
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LET the Greek his plastic clay

Mould in human fashion,
While his own creation may
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Lose the day loitering,'twill be the same story
To-morrow, and the next more dilatory,
For indecision brings its own delays,
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A DRAGON-FLY with beauteous wing
Is hov'ring o'er a silv'ry spring;
I watch its motions with delight,--
Now dark its colours seem, now bright;
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ONE Spring-morning bright and fair,

Roam'd a shepherdess and sang;
Young and beauteous, free from care,
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ON bridges small and bridges great
Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state,
Of bronze, wood, painted, or of stone,
Some small as dolls, some giants grown;
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THUS to be chain'd for ever, can I bear?
A very torment that, in truth, would be.
This very day my new resolve shall see.--
I'll not go near the lately-worshipp'd Fair.
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THERE lived in the desert a holy man

To whom a goat-footed Faun one day
Paid a visit, and thus began
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SAY, which Immortal
Merits the highest reward?
With none contend I,
But I will give it
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