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Friendship German Poems

These Friendship German poems are examples of German poems about Friendship. These are the best examples of German Friendship poems written by international poets.

Goethe and Schiller translations

These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an...

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Categories: german, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,

On Looking At Schiller's Skull Translation Goethe

ON LOOKING AT SCHILLER’S SKULL
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Here in this charnel-house full of bleaching bones,
like yesteryear’s
fading souvenirs,
I see the...

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Categories: german, best friend, body, death,

Bertolt Brecht Translations of Holocaust Poems

The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled huge...

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Categories: german, holocaust, horror,