The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction: Goethe the Revolutionary Foreword: Biography as Poetry, Poetry as Biography The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Goethe

Epigraph for an Introduction to The West-East Divan The Luck of Love Dedication Maying Welcome and Farewell Wild Rose The New Amadis Wanderer’s Storm Song Mahomet’s Song Prometheus Ganymede The King in Thule To Cousin Kronos, the Coachman On the Lake The Artist’s Evening Song The Bliss of Grief Wanderer’s Night Song (1) To Charlotte von Stein Restless Love Winter Journey in the Harz To the Moon All Things the Gods Bestow Take This to Heart The Fisherman Song of the Spirits upon the Waters Song of the Parcae Wanderer’s Night Song (2) Night Thoughts Human Limitations My Goddess The Elf-King Divinity “Joyful and Woeful …” Morning Complaints Five Roman Elegies (1788–1790):

I. “Speak, O stones of Rome! …” III. “Do not regret, beloved …” V. “Happy I find myself …” VII. “How merry I am in Rome! …” IX. “Flames, autumnal, glow …”

The Nearness of the Beloved The Silent Sea Three Poems from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795–96):

“D’you know that land where lemon blossoms blow …” “Ah, none but those who yearn …” “Who never ate his bread with tears …”

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice The God and the Dancer The Bride of Corinth The Metamorphosis of the Plants World Soul Nature and Art Permanence in Change Night Song The Sonnet The Metamorphosis of the Animals Farewell The Lover Writes Again Eight Poems from The West-East Divan

Talismans Blessed Yearning To Zuleika Ginkgo Biloba Limitless In a Thousand Forms The Higher and the Highest Elements

From Parabolic Limitation To Luna Lovely Is the Night Muteness Proem Ur-Words: Orphic At Midnight Refinding In Honor of Luke Howard Always and Everywhere The One and the All Trilogy of Passion The Pariah The Bridegroom A Better Understanding (from The West-East Divan) From The Legacy From The Chinese-German Daybook-Yearbook:

“Twilight from the heights …” Full Moon Rising Dornburg

Ten Poems from Faust:

1. Dedication (To Faust, Part 1) 2. Prologue in Heaven 3. Faust in His Study 4. Faust Translating the Gospel 5. In Martha’s Garden 6. Mephistopheles Speaks 7. The Bailey 8. Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel 9. Faust’s Remorse 10. Chorus Mysticus

Afterword: Natural Meanings: On Translation List of English and German Titles