Wanderer's Night-Songs
In the first song, a speaker weary of struggle asks for heavenly peace to enter the heart. In the second, hilltops and treetops are quiet, birds sleep, and the person addressed is told that rest will soon come.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry, Meditative Poetry · 158 words
First lines
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I
Thou that from the heavens art, / Every pain and sorrow stillest, / And the doubly wretched heart / Doubly with refreshment fillest, / I am weary with contending! / Why this rapture and unrest? / Peace descending / Come, ah, come into my breast!
II
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Two short songs voice a personal plea for peace and directly address someone awaiting rest.
- Nature Poetry — The second song places its promise of rest among quiet hilltops, barely stirring treetops, and sleeping birds.
- Meditative Poetry — The songs pause over weariness, inner unrest, and the prospect of repose.
Tags
rest · weariness · peace · sleeping birds · stillness · prayer
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 158 words
- Structure: 1 section, 5 paragraphs
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