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Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, British Columbia
Among the princes of Germany -- I cannot divide my life -- Ownership -- The demagogue -- The powerful -- "Aren't we right to deceive the people? -- Princes often imprint -- A student told me -- When I heard them yelling -- They really annoy me --...
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Among the princes of Germany -- I cannot divide my life -- Ownership -- The demagogue -- The powerful -- "Aren't we right to deceive the people? -- Princes often imprint -- A student told me -- When I heard them yelling -- They really annoy me -- Someone said -- Art, Science, Religion -- We all see God -- Whoever serves the public -- Age -- The Years -- Rumi Speaks -- "Tell me how you live." -- Who is happiest? -- Time spent looking for cures -- Every event -- So, what do you consider sin? -- You cannot cure your oddities -- Always strive for the whole -- Regardless of age -- No one likes giving -- Worries -- You ask if I mean all I say -- "Whom should we believe?" -- If you play at life -- Zeus, why -- Forget about transiency -- Do you know how to find the joy of life? -- Yes, you're on the right track -- You want the comfort of certainty! -- Let no one resemble another -- Rulers and common people -- Every life is worth living -- Guidelines for Life -- Notes on Proper Names and Greek Titles -- About the translator -- PRAISE FOR GRAHAM GOOD'S RILKE'S LATE POETRY -- Back Cover. Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Copyright -- Goethe's Life and Work -- I LOVE AND SOLITUDE -- To Sleep -- By the Riverside -- May Song -- Hail and Farewell -- The King in Thule -- Bonding Song -- Autumnal Feeling -- The Hunter's Evening Song -- The Wanderer's Night Song (I) -- Restless Love -- To the Moon -- The Elf-King -- Night Thoughts -- The Harpist (I) -- The Harpist (II) -- The Harpist (III) -- Ballad of the Harpist -- Mignon (I) -- Mignon (II) -- Mignon (III) -- The Spinster -- My Love Is Near -- The Coy Shepherdess -- The Shepherd -- The Repentant Shepherdess -- The Mountain Castle -- Your Presence -- The Lost Ring -- West Wind -- The Presence of the Past -- A Phenomenon -- The Chestnut Tree -- Behramgur -- Gingko Biloba -- Suleika -- The Bridegroom -- To the Rising Full Moon -- II GODS AND HUMANS -- A Song about Mohammed -- Prometheus -- Ganymede -- The Feeling of Humanity -- Winter Journey in the Harz Mountains -- Song of the Spirits above the Waters -- Human Limits -- The Divine -- The Song of the Fates -- Permanence within Change -- Longing -- Memorial -- Prooemion -- Orphic Words -- Symbolum -- Antepirrhema -- Talismans -- The Wanderer's Equanimity -- Saint Nepomuk's Eve -- One and All -- Spirit Hovering over the Earth -- All of the stars -- When, in infinity -- Legacy -- From Faust, Part Two, Final Scene -- III NATURE AND ART -- Artist's Evening Song -- On the Lake -- Hope -- My Goddess -- The Wanderer's Night Song (II) -- Anacreon's Grave -- Flat Calm -- Fortunate Voyage -- Into the Distance -- Nature and Art -- The Sonnet -- Humility -- Song and Form -- Unlimited -- Epirrhema -- Parabasis -- Schiller's Remains -- Twilight -- At Night -- Always and Everywhere -- I like full rhyme -- Once you are clear -- Our earnest efforts -- Something is speaking -- Poems are like stained-glass windows -- IV WIT AND WISDOM -- Originality. Why read Goethe's poetry today? Ours is an age which prizes both individual self-development and cultural diversity. Goethe (1749-1832) was the first major poet to show how these two values could be combined. Goethe, who coined the term "world literature," explored a wide variety of subject matter, from love and creativity, to nature and religion. For Goethe life is a process with no final answers: "All meaning is only asking." This selection of Goethe's poetry aims to represent its formal and thematic variety in readable verse translations
