• Erwach ich zum Gefühl, stößt die beklemmte Brust
    Die Seufzer aus, die sie erstickt sich unbewußt,
    Ist's recht auch, daß zu deinem Grab die Tränen fließen,
    Die zur Erleichtrung sich aus trübem Aug ergießen?
    Ists Pflicht, sich sinnenlos um eingestandne Pein,
    Verstummend, unerklärt im Herzen zu verzeihn?
    Verdunkelt...

  • La Aurora.
    Yo le miré; cual húmedo rocío
    bañaba sus mejillas flébil llanto,
    el ¡ay! de la agonía era su canto,
    y su albor el pesar triste y sombrío.

    El Mediodía.
    Yo lo miré; inextinguible fuego
    su corazón y su alma devoraba;
    el rayo del dolor su faz surcaba.
    Mi luz era para él la luz del ciego.

    La Tarde.
    Yo le miré de...

  • Werther had a love for Charlotte
      Such as words could never utter;
    Would you know how first he met her?
      She was cutting bread and butter.

    Charlotte was a married lady,
      And a moral man was Werther,
    And for all the wealth of Indies
      Would do nothing for to hurt her.

    So he sighed and pined and ogled,
      And his...

  • Werther had a love for Charlotte

         Such as words could never utter;

    Would you know how first he met her?

         She was cutting bread and butter.


    Charlotte was a married lady,

         And a moral man was Werther,

    And, for all the wealth of Indies,

         Would do nothing for to hurt her....