From the German by Charles Timothy Brooks

THE WATERS purled, the waters swelled,—
  A fisher sat near by,
And earnestly his line beheld
  With tranquil heart and eye;
And while he sits and watches there,
  He sees the waves divide,
And, lo...

From the German by Thomas Carlyle
From “Wilhelm Meister”
“KNOW’ST thou the land where citron-apples bloom,
And oranges like gold in leafy gloom,
A gentle wind from deep-blue heaven blows,
The myrtle thick, and high the laurel grows?
Know’st thou it...