The Maid of Orleans and Other Poems Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 Original Publisher: Smith, Elder Subjects: Drama / General Drama / Continental European Fiction / Classics History / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Drama Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint... more » of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO EMMA. (From Schiller.) All my vanished hopes and pleasures Lie in misty distance far; Yet my glances fondly linger On one solitary star; But, like that fair planet's light, It is but a gleam of night. If the sleep of death had bound thee, If thou wert in darkness laid; From my heart's undying sorrow Thy loved image would not fade; But, though bright I see thee shine, I may never call thee mine. Emma ! could that bright affection False and perishable prove ? Can a dream so brief and fleeting -- Emma ! say, can this be love ? Has it faded, love's bright spring, -- Faded -- like an earthly thing ? 238 SONG. (From Goethe.) I Think of thee, when o'er the oceau glancing The sunlight gleams; I think of thee, when on the fountain glancing The pale moon beams. I see thee, when afar the whirlwind tosses The dust-cloud light; W hen the frail bridge the trembling wand'rer crosses, At dead of night. I hear thee, when the rushing billows glisten, Raised by the breeze; When all is still, I oft go forth to listen Among the trees. I am with thee, though from me thou art riven, Still thou art near; The bright sun sinks -- the stars shine forth in Heaven -- O wert thou here ! CONSOLATION IN TEARS. (From Goethe.) How is it that thou art so sad, When all around is gay ? For by those tearful eyes of thine Thou must have wept to-day. " And if in l...« less