Who never ate his bread with tears, He who never spent his sorrowful nights Sat on his bed weeping, He knows you not,...
Literature
The evening
Silence of the people loud desire: roars the earth as in dreams Wonderful with all trees, What the heart is hardly...
Hyacinths
Music echoes far away; but here is silent night, The plants breathe on me with a slumbering scent. I have always,...
Hiker’s Night Song
Above all peaks Is rest, In all treetops Do you feel Hardly a breath; The birds are silent in the forest. Just wait!...
Welcome and farewell
My heart was beating. Quickly, on horseback! And away, wild as a hero to battle. The evening already swayed the earth,...
Der Erlkönig (The King of Alders)
Who rides through night and wind at this time of night? It's the father with his child; He must have the boy in his...
A young man loves a girl
A boy loves a girl, she chose someone else; the other one loves another and has married this one. The girl marries for...
Ballad of external life
And children grow up with deep eyes, That know of nothing, grow up and die, And all humankinds go their ways. And from...
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
One of the most interesting works on European history is Paul Kennedy's "Rise and Fall of the Great Powers." ...
If not more numbers and figures
If not more numbers and figures Are keys of all creatures If those who sing or kiss More than the deep-educated know,...
The girl
"I'm not beautiful," said the girl quietly. And overflow in silence her anguish; And now when she retired in her...
Why poetry
Poems are more than just a nice addition to literature. A good poem has an "inner beauty" and perfection and through...
It’s him
Spring leaves its blue ribbon Again flutter through the air; Sweet, well-known scents touch prophetically the land....
Before the storm
Christmas 1812: Half of Europe is occupied by French troops whose emperor is currently pull back from Russia. Prussia...
Hölderlin Poems
"All around is the city at rest; the illuminated street becomes silent, And decorated with torches, the wagons rush...