Nearness of the Beloved by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
I think of you when the shimmering sea waves Shine bright on me; I think of you when the moon's resplendent rays Light up each stream. I...
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Original Translation
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
The Power of Song by Friedrich Schiller
A stream of rain from fissured mountains, It comes with thunder's vehemence, A shattered peak pursues its fountains, And oaks beneath it...
Translation
- Apr 7, 2018
- 4 min
A Late Dante Canzone: Amor, che movi tua vertu da cielo
Oh Love, who takes his power from on high, As the sun does its splendor, So do the rays of your perpetual fire Shine brighter where they...
Original Translation
- Mar 25, 2018
- 1 min
Wanderer’s Night Song II by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
II. Over the hilltops Is quietness, And in the treetops Emptiness, There's hardly a sigh. The birds are soundless in the forest; With...
Translation
- Dec 15, 2017
- 2 min
The Knight of Toggenburg (1797) by Friedrich Schiller
Sir knight, I can a sister’s love Happily offer you, But any other kind of love Would not be true. Softly I can appear to you, And softly...
Translation
- Dec 12, 2017
- 6 min
Dante's Canzone On Grace and Virtue: Poschia ch’amor del tutto m’ha lasciato
Since everything has already been taken, And joy forsaken, When such delight was never known before, Since Love could stand no more To...
Original Translation
- Nov 25, 2017
- 4 min
Amor, da che conven pur ch'io mi doglia
Love, since it's been decreed that I now must Suffer, in order to be heard; That I must show myself spent of virtue, Grant me the...
Translation
- Nov 16, 2017
- 2 min
Longing by Friedrich Schiller
If I could fly from this dark valley Where the gloomy vapors creep And by some wonder swiftly flee, My soul would blessedly weep! Gazing...
Translation
- Oct 15, 2017
- 4 min
The Rime Petrose of Dante Alighieri
Dante wrote a series of Canzoni (songs) entitled the Rime Petrose, the "Stone Rhymes." Here is the first installment of the Stone Rhymes....
Translation
- Oct 14, 2017
- 2 min
Wheat by Jean Jaurès
Is man not the one who created wheat? For, what we call natural is hardly so—those things used by him—are far from spontaneous creations....
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