I need scarcely add that I have availed myself of this opportunity to make whatever improvements have suggested themselves to me in my original version of these Poems.
E.A.B.
London， 1874.
SONGS.
On the New Year Anniversary Song The Spring Oracle The Happy Couple Song of Fellowship Constancy in Change Table Song Wont and Done General Confession Coptic Song Another Vanitas！ vanitatum vanitas！
Fortune of War Open Table The Reckoning Ergo Bibamus！
EpiphaniasBALLADS.
Mignon The Minstrel Ballad of the banished and returning Count The Violet The Faithless Boy The Erl-King Johanna Sebus The Fisherman The King of Thule The Beauteous Flower..
Sir Curt's Wedding Journey Wedding Song The Treasure-digger The Rat-catcher The Spinner Before a Court of Justice The Page and the Miller's Daughter The Youth and the Millstream The Maid of the Mill's Treachery The Maid of the Mill's Repentance The Traveller and the Farm-Maiden Effects at a distance The Walking Bell Faithful Eckart The Dance of Death The Pupil in Magic The Bride of Corinth The God and the BayadereThe PariahI.The Pariah's Prayer.
II.Legend III.The Pariah's Thanks Death--lament of the noble Wife of Asan AgaCANTATAS.
Idyll Rinaldo The First Walpurgis-NightODES.
Three Odes to my Friend Mahomet's Song Spirit Song over the Waters My Goddess Winter Journey over the Hartz Mountains To Father Kronos.Written in a Post-chaise The Wanderer's Storm Song The Sea-Voyage The Eagle and Dove Prometheus Ganymede The Boundaries of Humanity The GodlikeMISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
The German Parnassus.
Lily's Menagerie To Charlotte Love's Distresses The Musagetes Morning Lament The Visit The Magic Net The Goblet To the Grasshopper.After Anacreon From the Sorrows of Young Werther Trilogy of Passion ：？
I.To WertherII.Elegy III.Atonement The Remembrance of the Good When I was still a youthful Wight For Ever From an Album of 1604Lines on seeing Schiller's Skull Royal Prayer Human Feelings On the Divan Hans Sachs' Poetical MissionSONNETS.
The Friendly Meeting In a Word The Maiden Speaks Growth Food in Travel Departure The Loving One Writes.
The Loving One once more She Cannot End Nemesis The Christmas Box The Warning The Epochs The Doubters and the Lovers CharadeEPIGRAMS.
To Originals The Soldier's Consolation Genial Impulse Neither this nor that The way to behave The best As broad as it's long The Rule of Life The same， expanded Calm at Sea The Prosperous Voyage Courage My only Property Admonition Old Age Epitaph Rules for Monarchs Paulo post futuri The Fool's EpiloguePARABLES.
Joy Explanation of an antique Gem Cat-Pie Legend Authors The Critic The Dilettante and the Critic The Wrangler The Yelpers The Stork's Vocation Celebrity Playing at Priests Songs Poetry A Parable Should e'er the loveless day remain A Plan the Muses entertained The Death of the Fly By the River The Fox and Crane The Fox and Huntsman The Frogs The Wedding Burial Threatening Signs The Buyers The Mountain Village Symbols Three Palinodias ：--I.The Smoke that from thine Altar blows.
II.Conflict of Wit and Beauty III.Rain and Rainbow.
Valediction The Country Schoolmaster The Legend of the Horseshoe A SymbolART.
The Drops of Nectar The Wanderer I Love as a Landscape PainterGOD， SOUL， AND WORLD.
Rhymed Distichs Prooemion The Metamorphosis of PlantsPROVERBSTAME XENIA
RELIGION AND CHURCH.
Thoughts on Jesus Christ's descent into HellANTIQUES.
Leopold， Duke of Brunswick To the Husbandman Anacreon's Grave The Brethren Measure of Time Warning Solitude The Chosen Cliff The Consecrated Spot The Instructors The Unequal Marriage.
Excuse Sakontala The Muse's Mirror Phoebus and Hermes The New Amor The Garlands The Swiss Alps DistichsVENETIAN EPIGRAMS.
ELEGIES.
Roman Elegies Alexis and Dora Hermann and DorotheaWEST-EASTERN DIVAN.
I.Minstrel's Book ：--Talismans The Four Favours Discord Song and Structure II.Book of Hafis ：--The Unlimited To Hafis III.Book of Love ：--The Types One Pair More Love's Torments IV.Book of Contemplation ：--Five Things For Woman Firdusi Suleika V.Book of Gloom ：--It is a Fault VI.Book of Proverbs VII.Book of Timur ：--The Winter and Timur To Suleika VIII.Book of Suleika ：--Suleika's Love Hatem Suleika Love for Love Hatem The Loving One speaks The Loving One again These tufted Branches fair Suleika The Sublime Type Suleika The Reunion Suleika In thousand forms IX.The Convivial Book ：--Can the Koran from Eternity be？
Ye've often for our DrunkennessX.Book of Parables ：--From Heaven there fell upon the foaming wave Bulbul's Song In the Koran with strange delight.
All kinds of Men.
It is good XI.Book of the Parsees ：--The Bequest of the ancient Persian faith XII.Book of Paradise：
The Privileged Men The favoured Beasts The Seven SleepersSONGS FROM VARIOUS PLAYS， ETC.
From Faust ：--DedicationPrologue in HeavenChorus of AngelsChorus of SpiritsMargaret at her Spinning WheelGarden SceneMargaret's Song From Faust腜art II.：--Ariel's Song and Chorus of SpiritsScene the last From Iphigenia in Tauris ：--Song of the Fates From Gotz von Berlichingen ：--Liebetraut's Song From Egmont ：--Clara and Brackenburg's SongClara's Song From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship ：--Who never eat with tears his breadWho gives himself to SolitudeMy Grief no Mortals knowSing no more in mournful tonesEpilogue to Schiller's Song of the BellL'ENVOITHE POEMS OF GOETHE.
DEDICATION.
The morn arrived； his footstep quickly scaredThe gentle sleep that round my senses clung， And I， awak'ning， from my cottage fared，And up the mountain side with light heart sprung；At every step I felt my gaze ensnaredBy new-born flow'rs that full of dew-drops hung；The youthful day awoke with ecstacy， And all things quicken'd were， to quicken me.
And as I mounted， from the valley roseA streaky mist， that upward slowly spread， Then bent， as though my form it would enclose，Then， as on pinions， soar'd above my head：
