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    A Comparison of Goethe and Schiller's Poetry... by Heinrich Heine
    Original Translation
    • Sep 28, 2020
    • 7 min

    A Comparison of Goethe and Schiller's Poetry... by Heinrich Heine

    From "The Romantic School", 1835 Posted with permission from the translator. "...There was a craze for comparing the productions of the...
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    Von Ewige Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms
    Musical Setting
    • Sep 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    Von Ewige Liebe (Eternal Love) Set by Brahms

    So dark, so dark the willow forests loom, The skies are wintered and the evening hushed. Now neither shroud nor light nor vapors rise,...
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    Cassandra
    By Terry Norton
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Cassandra

    Both beauty and intelligence were mine. But to what end? Of all the nineteen who Sprang from my mother’s fecund thighs, of daughters I...
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    On Contemplating Schiller's Skull
    Translation
    • Aug 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    On Contemplating Schiller's Skull

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Here in this charnel-house of bleaching bones, like...
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    Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert
    Musical Setting
    • Jul 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert

    My songs travel through the cool night, Searching for you. Find me in the tranquil grove, love— I'll wait for you. The gentle fronds of...
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    Song of the Spirits on the Water by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Original Translation
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Song of the Spirits on the Water by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

    The soul of mankind Is like water: From Heaven coming, To Heaven rising, Again descending – As it must – Earthward, Ever circling. It...
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    Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite" - A New English Translation
    Original Translation
    • Apr 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite" - A New English Translation

    Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor! Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress, and beguiler! I implore you, dread mistress,...
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    Friedrich Schiller's "Der Ring des Polykrates"
    Original Translation
    • Feb 24, 2020
    • 3 min

    Friedrich Schiller's "Der Ring des Polykrates"

    He stood on the ancient battlements, Proudly gazing from the parapets On Samos, over which he reigned. “This vast realm bends under my...
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    Goethe's Famous "Mailied"
    Original Translation
    • Feb 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Goethe's Famous "Mailied"

    How brightly nature Shines this morning! See the glowing sun! Hear the fields sing! Fragrant buds burst forth From each green frond! A...
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    Last Curtain by Rabindranath Tagore
    Original Translation
    • Feb 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    Last Curtain by Rabindranath Tagore

    I know the day comes when my eyes close, when my sight fails, when life takes its leave in silence and the last curtain veils my...
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    Nacht und Traume Set by Franz Schubert
    Original Translation
    • Jan 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Nacht und Traume Set by Franz Schubert

    Holy night, descending softly, Descending, too, are our dreams, Like moonlight through a darkened room, Through the depths of a man`s...
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    The Gods of Greece by Heinerich Heine
    Original Translation
    • Dec 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Gods of Greece by Heinerich Heine

    Full-blossoming moon! Here in thy light Like flowing gold the ocean gleams; As limpid as day, yet dimly bewitched, Reposing across the...
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    The Seashore Gathering
    Original Translation
    • Nov 25, 2019
    • 2 min

    The Seashore Gathering

    On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge. The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters boisterous. On the...
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    Goethe "Prometheus"
    Original Translation
    • Jul 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Goethe "Prometheus"

    So cover up thy heaven, Zeus, With cloudy mist! And like a boy, who chops The heads from thistles, Go blast the oaks and mountaintops!...
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    Goethe's "Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kent"
    Original Translation
    • Jun 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Goethe's "Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kent"

    Only he who truly longs Knows what grips me! Alone, the love that belongs With me has been set free. I look to the cloudy throngs Across...
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    The Gods of Greece - Set by Franz Schubert
    Original Translation
    • Apr 8, 2019
    • 1 min

    The Gods of Greece - Set by Franz Schubert

    Schubert set one of the 28 stanza's of Schiller's poem to music. We present an original translation along with the original German. Stay...
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    Words of Delusion by Friedrich Schiller
    Original Translation
    • Apr 1, 2019
    • 1 min

    Words of Delusion by Friedrich Schiller

    Three words hears man of the highest import Which fly from the mouth of the greatest; Their sound is lost, the meaning ears abort; They...
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    Pegasus im Joche (Pegasus in Yoke) by Friedrich Schiller
    Original Translation
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 3 min

    Pegasus im Joche (Pegasus in Yoke) by Friedrich Schiller

    In Greek mythology, Pegasus was the creature who created the Streams of Helicon by stomping his hoof into Mount Helicon. Unto a...
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    The Bride of Corinth (1797) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
    Original Translation
    • Jan 7, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Bride of Corinth (1797) by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

    I. There once descended a youth from Athens Unto a sleepy Corinthian town; Eager to meet his new family, friends And bride in waiting of...
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    African Lament
    Original Translation
    • Dec 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    African Lament

    A baby softly cried, But then it cried no more; Of needed food deprived, It hungers nevermore. His brother died of fever, He lived a life...
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