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The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)

144 chapters, about 62,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- 300 words
2. ORIGINAL PREFACE. 1,300 words
3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 200 words
4. I. To Werther 100 words
5. DEDICATION. 700 words
6. 1800.* ----- THE NEW AMADIS. 500 words
7. 1770. ----- CHRISTEL. 200 words
8. 1791. ----- PRESERVATION. 200 words
9. 1775.* ----- THE MUSES' SON. 400 words
10. 1803. ----- DECLARATION OF WAR. 100 words
11. 1803. ----- LOVER IN ALL SHAPES. 300 words
12. 1815.* ----- THE GOLDSMITH'S APPRENTICE. 100 words
13. 1789. ----- WHO'LL BUY GODS OF LOVE? 200 words
14. 1767-9. ----- TRUE ENJOYMENT. 200 words
15. 1767-8. ----- LIVING REMEMBRANCE. 200 words
16. 1767-9. ----- THE BLISS OF ABSENCE. 100 words
17. 1767-9. ----- TO LUNA. 100 words
18. 1767-9. ----- THE WEDDING NIGHT. 200 words
19. 1767. ----- MISCHIEVOUS JOY. 200 words
20. 1767-9. ----- NOVEMBER SONG. 700 words
21. 1775. ----- MAY SONG. 300 words
22. 1775.* ----- ON THE LAKE, 100 words
23. 1789. ----- THE SHEPHERD'S LAMENT. 100 words
24. 1803.* ----- COMFORT IN TEARS. 300 words
25. 1803.* ----- LONGING. 200 words
26. 1803. ----- TO MIGNON. 300 words
27. 1803.* ----- THE SPIRIT'S SALUTE. 200 words
28. 1776,* ----- TO THE MOON. 500 words
29. HIS COMRADE. 100 words
30. 1816. ----- JUNE. 400 words
31. 1828. ----- THE BRIDEGROOM.* 600 words
32. 1810. ----- GIPSY SONG. 200 words
33. 1772. ----- THE DESTRUCTION OF MAGDEBURG. 100 words
34. 1802. ----- THE SPRING ORACLE. 400 words
35. 1775. ----- CONSTANCY IN CHANGE. 200 words
36. 1803.* ----- TABLE SONG. 100 words
37. 1802. ----- WONT AND DONE. 100 words
38. 1813. ----- GENERAL CONFESSION. 200 words
39. 1803.* ----- COPTIC SONG. 200 words
40. 1789. ----- VANITAS! VANITATUM VANITAS! 200 words
41. 1806. ----- FORTUNE OF WAR. 300 words
42. 1814. ----- OPEN TABLE. 300 words
43. 1810. ----- ERGO BIBAMUS! 200 words
44. OF THE BANISHED AND RETURNING COUNT. 200 words
45. 1775.* ----- THE FAITHLESS BOY. 600 words
46. 1782.* ----- JOHANNA SEBUS. 200 words
47. 1809. ----- THE FISHERMAN. 200 words
48. 1779.* ----- THE KING OF THULE.* 100 words
49. COUNT. 100 words
50. 1798. ----- SIR CURT'S WEDDING-JOURNEY. 200 words
51. 1803.* ----- WEDDING SONG. 100 words
52. 1802. ----- THE TREASURE-DIGGER 200 words
53. THE SPINNER. 300 words
54. THE MAID OF THE MILL'S TREACHERY. 800 words
55. 1803.* ----- EFFECTS AT A DISTANCE. 100 words
56. 1808. ----- THE WALKING BELL 200 words
57. 1813. ----- FAITHFUL ECKART, 400 words
58. 1813. ----- THE DANCE OF DEATH. 200 words
59. 1813. ----- THE PUPIL IN MAGIC. 200 words
60. 1797. ----- THE BRIDE OF CORINTH. 200 words
61. AN INDIAN LEGEND. 200 words
62. I. THE PARIAH S PRAYER. 100 words
63. 1821. ----- II. LEGEND. 600 words
64. 1821. ----- III. THE PARIAH'S THANKS. 500 words
65. CANTATAS. 200 words
66. RINALDO. 500 words
67. FIRST ODE. 200 words
68. 1767. ----- THIRD ODE. 200 words
69. 1767. ----- MAHOMET'S SONG. 200 words
70. 1789.* ----- MY GODDESS. 300 words
71. 1781. ----- WINTER JOURNEY OVER THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS. 300 words
72. 1774. ----- THE WANDERER'S STORM-SONG. 300 words
73. 1771. ----- THE SEA-VOYAGE. 300 words
74. 1776. ----- THE EAGLE AND DOVE. 300 words
75. 1774.* ----- PROMETHEUS. 300 words
76. 1773. ----- GANYMEDE. 100 words
77. 1789.* ----- THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY. 100 words
78. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 700 words
79. 1775. ----- TO CHARLOTTE. 100 words
80. 1776.* ----- LOVE'S DISTRESSES. 100 words
81. 1789.* ----- THE MUSAGETES. 300 words
82. 1798. ----- MORNING LAMENT. 400 words
83. 1789.* ----- THE VISIT. 400 words
84. 1765. ----- THE MAGIC NET. 200 words
85. 1803. ----- THE GOBLET. 200 words
86. II. ELEGY. 400 words
87. III. ATONEMENT. 100 words
88. 1820.* ----- FROM AN ALBUM OF 1604. 100 words
89. 1820.* ----- LINES ON SEEING SCHILLER'S SKULL. 100 words
90. 1815.* ----- ON THE DIVAN. 1,100 words
91. SONNETS. 1,100 words
92. 1815.* ----- THE SAME, EXPANDED. 500 words
93. 1784. ----- THE FOOL'S EPILOGUE. 400 words
94. 1815. ----- CAT-PIE. 100 words
95. 1810. ----- LEGEND. 100 words
96. 1815.* ----- AUTHORS. 200 words
97. 1776.* ----- THE DILETTANTE AND THE CRITIC. 200 words
98. 1776.* ----- THE WRANGLER. 200 words
99. 1815.* ----- THE STORK'S VOCATION. 300 words
100. 1815.* ----- PLAYING AT PRIESTS. 300 words
101. 1821.* ----- THE FOX AND CRANE. 200 words
102. 1827.* ----- THREATENING SIGNS. 200 words
103. VALEDICTION. 200 words
104. I. 300 words
105. 1808.* ----- THE LEGEND OF THE HORSESHOE. 400 words
106. ART. 600 words
107. WANDERER. 200 words
108. 1815.* ------ PROCEMION. 200 words
109. 1816. ----- THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PLANTS. 200 words
110. ----- THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. 1,000 words
111. ROMAN ELEGIES. 200 words
112. ALEXIS AND DORA. 600 words
113. FATE AND SYMPATHY. 2,000 words
114. HERMANN. 2,400 words
115. THE BURGHERS. 1,300 words
116. MOTHER AND SON. 2,800 words
117. THE COSMOPOLITE. 2,700 words
118. THE AGE. 3,100 words
119. DOROTHEA. 2,300 words
120. HERMANN AND DOROTHEA. 1,200 words
121. CONCLUSION. 4,000 words
122. THE UNLIMITED. 200 words
123. THE TYPES. 200 words
124. FIVE THINGS. 200 words
125. BOOK OF PROVERBS. 500 words
126. THE WINTER AND TIMUR. 400 words
127. 1815. ----- SULEIKA. 100 words
128. 1815. ----- THE SUBLIME TYPE. 300 words
129. 1815. ----- THE REUNION. 300 words
130. 1815. ----- SULEIKA. 200 words
131. THE CONVIVIAL BOOK. 200 words
132. BOOK OF PARABLES. 400 words
133. THE BEQUEST OF THE ANCIENT PERSIAN FAITH. 500 words
134. THE PRIVILEGED MEN. 500 words
135. 1815. ----- THE SEVEN SLEEPERS. 300 words
136. I. DEDICATION. 100 words
137. IV. CHORUS OF SPIRITS. 200 words
138. V. MARGARET AT HER SPINNING-WHEEL. 200 words
139. FAUST. 100 words
140. II. CHORUS OF SPIRITS. 300 words
141. THE BEATIFIED CHILDREN. 200 words
142. THE THREE. 300 words
143. SONG OF THE FATES. 100 words
144. BOOK II., CHAP. XIII. 800 words

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