Besides West-Eastern Divan, Roman Elegies, and the second of his "Wanderer's Nightsongs" he wrote a ballad in which a boy sings "My father, my father, can't you see there" and opens "Who rides, so late, through night and wind?"
One of this man's poems mentions "in robe of mist, the oak" which "glared with a thousand gloomy eyes" and ends exclaiming "And, Gods, to love--what ecstasy!" This author of "Welcome and Farewell" entreats "tell no one but the wise... What is alive I want to praise, /What longs for death by fire" in his "Blessed Longing", which appears alongside "Reunion" from the "Book of Suleika" in a collection inspired by the poems of (*) Hafiz. Another collection features the creation of the goddess Opportunity and a love affair with Faustine, a stand in for Christiane Vulpius, while one of his poems remarks "The birds in the forest stopped talking" and that "Soon, done with walking,/you shall rest, too." Besides West-Eastern Divan, Roman Elegies, and the second of his "Wanderer's Nightsongs" he wrote a ballad in which a boy sings "My father, my father, can't you see there" and opens "Who rides, so late, through night and wind?" For 10 points, name this author of "Prometheus", "The Elf-King", and verse dramas like Faust, Part II.
One of this man's poems mentions "in robe of mist, the oak" which "glared with a thousand gloomy eyes" and ends exclaiming "And, Gods, to love--what ecstasy!"
Johann Wolfgang von {Goethe}