WHAT pulls at my heart so? <br /> <br />What tells me to roam? <br />What drags me and lures me <br /> <br />From chamber and home? <br />How round the cliffs gather <br /> <br />The clouds high in air! <br />I fain would go thither, <br /> <br />I fain would be there! <br /> <br />The sociable flight <br /> <br />Of the ravens comes back; <br />I mingle amongst them, <br /> <br />And follow their track. <br />Round wall and round mountain <br /> <br />Together we fly; <br />She tarries below there, <br /> <br />I after her spy. <br /> <br />Then onward she wanders, <br /> <br />My flight I wing soon <br />To the wood fill'd with bushes, <br /> <br />A bird of sweet tune. <br />She tarries and hearkens, <br /> <br />And smiling, thinks she: <br />"How sweetly he's singing! <br /> <br />He's singing to me!" <br /> <br />The heights are illum'd <br /> <br />By the fast setting sun; <br />The pensive fair maiden <br /> <br />Looks thoughtfully on; <br />She roams by the streamlet, <br /> <br />O'er meadows she goes, <br />And darker and darker <br /> <br />The pathway fast grows. <br /> <br />I rise on a sudden, <br /> <br />A glimmering star; <br />"What glitters above me, <br /> <br />So near and so far?" <br /> <br />And when thou with wonder <br /> <br />Hast gazed on the light, <br />I fall down before thee, <br /> <br />Entranced by thy sight!<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing-5/
