Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems

As a fisher-boy I fared

To the black rock in the sea,
And, while false gifts I prepared.
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THE INDIFFERENT.

COME to the dance with me, come with me, fair one!
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WHEN through the nations stalks contagion wild,
We from them cautiously should steal away.
E'en I have oft with ling'ring and delay
Shunn'd many an influence, not to be defil'd.
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LOVE is indeed a glorious prize!
What fairer guerdon meets our eyes?--
Though neither wealth nor power are thine,
A very hero thou dost shine.
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THE waters rush'd, the waters rose,

A fisherman sat by,
While on his line in calm repose
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THE snow-flakes fall in showers,

The time is absent still,
When all Spring's beauteous flowers,
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WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?
Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?
Ah, the lip that erst so many raptures
Used to taste, and used to give responsive,
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SILENCE deep rules o'er the waters,

Calmly slumb'ring lies the main,
While the sailor views with trouble
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GOD to his untaught children sent

Law, order, knowledge, art, from high,
And ev'ry heav'nly favour lent,
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IF to her eyes' bright lustre I were blind,
No longer would they serve my life to gild.
The will of destiny must be fulfilid,--
This knowing, I withdrew with sadden'd mind.
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