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An den Mond
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An den Mond
Füllest wieder Busch und TalStill mit Nebelglanz,Lösest endlich auch einmalMeine Seele ganz.Breitest über mein GefildLindernd deinen Blick,Wie des Freundes Auge, mildÜber mein Geschick.Jeden Nachklang fühlt mein HerzFroh- und trüber Zeit,Wandle zwischen Freud and SchmerzIn der Einsamkeit.Fliesse, fliesse, lieber Fluss!Nimmer werd ich froh;So verrauschte Scherz und Kuss,Und die Treue so.Rausche, Fluss, das Tal entlang,Ohne Rast und Ruh,Rausche, flüstre meinem SangMelodien zu,Wenn du in der WinternachtWütend überschwillst,Oder um die FrühlingsprachtJunger Knospen quillst.Selig, wer sich vor der WeltOhne Hass verschliesst,Einen Freund am Busen hältUnd mit dem geniesst,Was, von Menschen nicht gewusstOder nicht bedacht,Durch das Labyrinth der BrustWandelt in der Nacht.
An den Mond
Once more you silently fill wood and valewith your hazy gleamand at lastset my soul quite free.You cast your soothing gazeover my fields;with a friend’s gentle eyeyou watch over my fate.My heart feels every echoof times both glad and gloomy.I hoer between joy and sorrowin my solitude.Flow on, beloved river!I shall never be happy:thus have laughter and kisses rippled away,and with them constancy.Murmur on, river, through the valley,without ceasing,murmur on, whispering melodiesto my song,When on winter nightsyou angrily overflow,or when you bathe the springtime splendourof the young buds.Happy he who, without hatred,shuts himself off from the world,holds one friend to his heart,and with him enjoysThat which, unknown toand undreamt of by men,wanders by nightthrough the labyrinth of the heart.
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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An den Mond
An den Mond
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Poet
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace, which in 1998 were together designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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