The Poems of Goethe - pt. 2026 Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Volume: pt. 2026 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: S. E. Cassino Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.c... more »om where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SMITTEN. Through the wood as I was roaming, There a gentle youth I spied, Piping sweetly in the gloaming, Till the rocks around replied, So la la! And beside him down he drew me Called me fair, and kissed me then. " Pipe once more!" I said, and through me Thrill'd his music sweet again. So la la! Now my peace is flown, and never Comes a smile into mine eye, And within my ears for ever Rings that music, and I sigh, So la la! RESERVATION. My maiden she proved false to me; To hate all joys I soon began, Then to a flowing stream I ran, -- The stream ran past me hastily. There stood I fixed, in mute despair; My head swam round as in a dream ; I well-nigh fell into the stream, And earth seemed with me whirling there. Sudden I heard a voice that cried -- I had just turned my face from thence -- It was a voice to charm each sense : " Beware, for deep is yonder tide !" A thrill my blood pervaded now, I looked, and saw a beauteous maid ; -- I asked her name -- 'twas Kate, she said -- "Oh, lovely Kate! how kind art thou! , " From death I have been saved by thee, 'Tis through thec only that I live ; Little 'twere life alone to give, My joy in life then deign to be! " And then I told my sorrows o'er, Her eyes to earth she sweetly threw; I kissed her, and she kissed me too, And -- then I talked of death no more. RESOLVE. On, on across the plains and feel no dread! Where not the boldest hath Trod down a path, which thou may'st safely tread, Make for thyself a path ! Still thou my heart, dear l...« less