The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres

Elpenor, a Fragment, Tragedy...................... 1781─3 Iphigenia auf Tauris, Classical drama............. 1786─7 Torquato Tasso, Classical drama................... 1787─9 The...

"NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty! Still as the grave is the town, clear'd out! I verily fancy Fifty at most of all our inhabitants still may be foun...

[This fine piece, written originally in 1805, on Schiller's death, was altered and recast by Goethe in 1815, on the occasion of the performance on the stage of the Song of the B...

But they remain ever In firmness unshaken Round tables all-golden. On stride they from mountain To mountain far distant: From out the abysses' Dark jaws, the breath rises Of tor...