The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres

PART I.

ROMAN ELEGIES.

[The Roman Elegies were written in the same year as the Venetian Epigrams--viz. 1790.]

SPEAK, ye stones, I entreat! Oh speak, ye palaces lofty!

Utter a word, oh ye streets! Wilt thou not, Genius, awake? All that thy sacred walls, eternal Rome, hold within them

Teemeth with life; but to me, all is still silent and dead. Oh, who will whis...