Arranged chronologically, David Luke's verse translations are set alongside the German originals to give a picture of Goethe's poetic development. This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose translation which has been in print continously since then (life sales 43,000). Bibliographical note and acknowledgements xi Introduction xiii I. The younger Goethe (1770-1786) May Song 3(2) Welcome and Parting 5(2) Ganymede 7(4) Prometheus 11(4) From the `Urfaust', c. 1774 `Well, that's Philosophy I've read' (lines 354-97) 15(2) `In life like a flood' (501-9) 17(2) `There once was a king' (2759-82) 19(2) `My heart's so heavy' (3374-413) 21(2) `What are the joys of heaven' (3345-65) 23(2) `Who killed me dead?' (4412-20) 25(2) On the Lake 27(2) Restless Love 29(2) `Why was deep insight given to us' 31(4) A Wanderer's Night Song I: `Messenger of heaven' 35(1) A Wanderer's Night Song II: `Now stillness covers' 35(2) To the Moon (First version) 37(2) To the Moon (Final version) 39(2) The Fisherman 41(2) The Elf King 43(4) [The Song of the Fates] 47(2) Human Limitations 49(4) Divinity 53(4) `Oh do you know the land' 57(2) `Only the lonely heart' 59(1) `Who never wept to eat his bread' 59(2) Anacreon's Grave 61(4) II. Classical and middle years (1786--1810) From the Roman Elegies, 1788-90 `Speak to me, stones' 65(1) `More than I ever had hoped' 65(4) `Now on classical soil I stand' 69(2) `Eros was ever a rogue' 71(4) `You were two perilous serpents' 75(2) `Caesar would hardly have got me' 77(4) `Strength, and a bold and liberal' 81(2) `Once in the garden's far corner' 83(4) From the Venetian Epigrams, 1790 `Pagan burial-urns and sarcophagi' 87(1) `Give me, Priapus, another name for it!' 87(2) `If I'd the husband I need' 89(1) `Dear little shape that might have' 89(1) `Show us the parts of the Lord!' 89(2) `Goats, go and stand on my left!' 91(1) `Oh, how intently I used to observe' 91(1) `It is such joy to hug my beloved' 91(2) Miscellaneous classical epigrams, c. 1796 ```Why'', asked Beauty, ``oh Zeus,''' 93(1) `True love is love that stays constant' 93(1) `Whom shall you trust, honest friend?' 93(1) `Strive towards wholeness' 93(1) `Let us not all be the same' 93(2) From Hermann and Dorothea, 1796-7 `Thus the men talked' (Canto IV, lines 1-64) 95(4) `So together they walked' (Canto VIII, 1-104) 99(8) From Faust Part One, 1797-1808 Dedication (lines 1-32) 107(2) [Song of the Archangels] (243-70) 109(2) `Ice thaws on the river' (903-40) 111(2) `In the beginning was the Word' (1224-37) 113(2) The God and the Dancing-girl 115(6) Permanence in Change 121(4) Nature and Art 125(2) Nocturne 127(2) The Diary 129(16) III. The later Goethe (1810-1832) From the West-Eastern Divan, 1814-1818 Hegira 145(2) Singing and Shaping 147(2) A Phenomenon 149(1) A Past within the Present 149(4) Talismans 153(2) Unbounded 155(2) Suleika speaks 157(1) The Secret 157(2) Engulfed 159(2) `Love for love and hour for hour' 161(1) `Beloved, let me show you' 161(2) `As I sailed on the Euphrates' 163(1) `This I'm happy to interpret!' 163(2) Ginkgo biloba 165(1) The Night of the Full Moon 165(2) `West wind, how I envy you' 167(2) `King Behramgur, they say, invented' 169(2) Summer Night 171(4) `Well, so at last I've learnt' 175(2) Privileged Animals 177(2) Higher and Highest Matters 179(4) Ecstatic Longing 183(2) Miscellaneous late poems and epigrams Old Age 185 Advertisement 184(1) `If a man's dead idle' 185(1) `A man's a misfit' 185(2) `The hero Napoleon came' 187(1) [The Death of a Fly] 187(2) At Midnight 189(2) Primal Words. Orphic 191(30) The Pariah The Pariah's Prayer 193(2) Legend 195(10) The Pariah's Thanksgiving 205(1) A Trilogy of Passion To Werther 205(4) Elegy 209(10) Reconcilement 219(2) The Bridegroom 221(2) [On Contemplating Schiller's Skull] 223(2) `Dusk has fallen' 225(2) To the Rising Full Moon 227(1) [A Legacy] [Vermachtnis] 227(2) From Faust Part Two, 1800-1831 `When a fragrance has descended' (lines 4634-65) 229(2) `How strong and pure the pulse' (4679-727) 231(4) `So much admired and so much censured' (8488-515) 235(2) `The jagged summits on its mountain' (9526-61) 237(2) `We shall dwell amid this tremor' (9992-10038) 239(4) `A watchman by calling' (11288-303) 243(2) `Woods, hitherwavering' (11844-89) 245(2) `All that must disappear' (12104-11) 247(2) Notes 249(27) Index of German titles and first lines 276(4) Index of English titles and first lines 280