I FEAR THEE NOT
AND OTHER POEMS
BYOTTO STECHHAN
INDIANAPOLIS CARLON & HOLLENBECK, PRINTERS 1893
Copyright, 1893,
By OTTO STECHHAN.
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MARGARET.
- Dost thou believe in God?
FAUST.
- Yes, I in God believe,
- Question or priest or sage and they
- Seem, in the answer you receive,
- To mock the questioner.
MARGARET.
- Then thou dost not believe?
FAUST.
- Sweet one, my meaning do not misconceive;
- Him who dare name
- And who proclaim,
- Him I believe?
- Who that can feel, his heart can steal,
- To say, I believe him not?
- The All-embracer,
- All-sustainer.
- Holds and sustains he not
- Thee, me, himself?
- Lifts not the heaven its dome above?
- Doth not the firm set earth beneath us lie?
- And beaming tenderly with looks of love,
- Climb not the everlasting stars on high ?
- Do I not gaze into thine eyes?
- Nature's impenetrable agencies,
- Are they not thronging on thy heart and brain,
- Viewless, or visible to mortal ken,
- Around thee weaving their mysterious chain?
- Fill thence thy heart, how large so'er it be;
- And in the feeling when thou utterly art blest,
- Then call it what you will--
- Call it bliss I heart I love I God I
- I have no name for it!--
- 'Tis feeling all;
- Name is but sound and smoke
- Shrouding the glow of heaven.
--FAUST (GOETHE).
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DEDICATED
TO
ALLLOVERS OF NATURE AND THE NATURAL
BY
OTTO STECHHAN
INDEX
- I Fear Thee Not1
- The Poet's Longing4
- A Mother's Eye7
- Autumn Leaves9
- Kissing Thee1010
- Violets11
- Smile as of Yore on Me Again13
- Maxinkuckee15
- Despair17
- Joy8
- The Drinker's Bliss19
- A Father's Hope20
- Pearls22
- Dew Drops23
- Life's Voyages25
- Away, Away28
- Bounding Blood30
- Will to a Dream It All Conform?32
- May Night34
- Starry Eyes36
- Two Goblets37
- My Sabbath39
- Harbingers of Spring41
- The Lily43
- Enjoy To-day for Thine Is Not the Morrow45
- The Plaint of the Rose47
- Night at Maxinkuckee48
- My Queen50
- Murmur of the Waves51
- My Brightest Star54
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- Ode to Night55
- Canst Thou Remember?57
- Early Rays58
- Forgive60
- Tarry Not61
- My Winged Steed62
- Too Late64
- All Bliss upon this Earth is Won66
- Silent Mourner68
- No Word My Lips Escapes69
- Song of the Katydid71
- An Autumn Day73
- The Neglected Lyre75
- Inquisitive Guest77
- Was It a Dream?78
- None Fairer to Behold79
- Why Ask the Stars?80
- Ode to Music82
- First Love84
- Come Soon86
- Thou Art So Far88
- To a Soulful Beauty90
- Forever Thine91
- What Then, What Then?93
- My Ideal95
- Storm97
- Raindrops99
- Ave Maria102
- Flowers Wild104