Category: Poetry
partly from the mysterious utterances of the great angel Avé, perhaps equally spurious. Of course Bertram’s song is merely a rather free adaptation of the two principal fragments of Sappho, which so many people have failed to translate that one can feel no shame in making yet...
partly from the mysterious utterances of the great angel Avé, perhaps equally spurious. Of course Bertram’s song is merely a rather free adaptation of the two principal fragment...
2. ACT I.“Therefore we are carefully to proceed in Magic, lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us, which likewise do desire the society of the human soul.” _Arbatel of Magic. Apho...
3. ACT II.VENUS. Sweet, sweet are May and June, dear, The loves of lambent spring, Our lamp the drooping moon, dear, Our roof, the stars that sing; The bed, of moss and roses; The night,...
4. ACT III.For Love is lord of truth and loyalty, Lifting himself out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest sky, Above the reach of loathly sinful lust, Whose base affect thr...
5. ACT IV.“So, force is sorrow, and each sorrow, force: What then? since Swiftness gives the charioteer The palm, his hope be in the vivid horse Whose neck God clothed with thunder, not t...
6. SCENE I.ELIZABETH. Not so. Learn how this came. My father would have made A match of lands and titles. I declined, Minded to keep my high virginity. He laughed, was cruel. So I said at...
7. SCENE II.LANDGRAVE. Welcome all minstrels! Let us celebrate In the old fashion, dear to Germany, My child’s betrothal to this noble youth, Great lord, true knight, and honest gentleman,...
8. ACT V.“One birth of my bosom; One beam of mine eye; One topmost blossom That scales the sky. Man, equal and one with me, man that is made of me, man that is I.” _Hertha._