Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 9. GOETHE'S MONUMENT AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: Good german men, maids, matrons, pray give ear Last Line: Whom a stream doth from sachsenhausen sever! Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Monuments | ||||||||
GOOD German men, maids, matrons, pray give ear Collect subscribers with the utmost speed, The worthy folk of Frankfort have agreed To build a monument to Goethe here. "At fair time" (think they) "this will make it clear "To foreign traders that we're of his breed, "That 'twas our soil that nurtured such fair seed, "And then in trade they'll trust us without fear." O touch the bard's bright wreath of laurel never, And keep your money in your pockets too; 'Tis Goethe's, his own monument to raise. He dwelt amongst you in his infant days, But half a world now severs him from you, Whom a stream doth from Sachsenhausen sever! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRO PATRIA by CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON CHURCH MONUMENTS by GEORGE HERBERT LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN by PATRICK KAVANAGH FOR THE UNION DEAD by ROBERT LOWELL ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS by W. T. ADAMS INSCRIPTIONS: 4 by MARK AKENSIDE EUMARES by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS THE MAUSOLEUM by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |
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